J. M. Coetzee's 1999 novel about racial strife and a father-daughter relationship in South Africa was adapted as a 2008 movie starring John Malkovich as a troubled college professor who resigns his position after an affair with a student and moves to his daughter's remote farm house in the South African hinterlands to make sense of his life.
See the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqvIssZT6cg
Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, visits UAlbany tomorrow, Friday, 10/12: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/vws.html#jm