In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee

In the Heart of the Country by J.M. CoetzeeStifled 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 consciousness starts to drift and the line between fact and the workings of her excited imagination

sabotaging our most sincere attempts to get ahead and create happy

who added time to the equation

they’ve always been able to communicate with each other telepathically

But MBS began to betray an erratic interior beneath the polish laid on by scores of consultants and public relations experts like McKinsey & Company

Joseph Stiglitz

Then comes Garibaldi's landing in Sicily and the Prince must decide whether to resist the forces of change or come to terms with them

Frollo hatches a plot to destroy her

whose life we follow from boyhood to old age

This paradox - that our biology is indistinct from all life

confronting mad monks in a mountain monastery

and preach that any day now the world will be swept clean in a hurricane of fire

Now you can turn that dream into reality