THE BOOK: Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa, and trapped in a web
of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a
black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed,
this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace.
As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousnessstarts to drift
and the line between fact and the workings of her excited imagination becomes
blurred. What follows is the fable of a woman's passionate, obsessed and
violent response to an Africa that will not heed her.
THE BOOK: Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa, and trapped in a web
of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a
black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed,
this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace.
As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousnessstarts to drift
and the line between fact and the workings of her excited imagination becomes
blurred. What follows is the fable of a woman's passionate, obsessed and
violent response to an Africa that will not heed her.
