The Heart of the Matter
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:7th Oct '04
Should be back in stock very soon
Winner of the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and considered one of the best English language novels of the twentieth century.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD
Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
Primarily a novel about the moral consequences of religious belief, but it is almost as importantly a novel about colonialism * Independent *
The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings -- V. S. Pritchett * The Times *
Here is this man who can represent ordinary life, ordinary troubles, and make them exciting to read about -- Shirley Hazzard * Guardian *
ISBN: 9780099478423
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Weight: 205g
288 pages