Description
A startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature For years, it had been what is called a "deteriorating situation." Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family--liberal whites--are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July--the shifts in character and relationships--gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites. "So flawlessly written that every one of its events seems chillingly, ominously possible."--Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 07/29/1982
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.10w x 0.45d
ISBN13: 9780140061406
ISBN10: 0140061401
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
- Fiction | Historical | General
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 07/29/1982
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.10w x 0.45d
ISBN13: 9780140061406
ISBN10: 0140061401
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
- Fiction | Historical | General
About the Author
Nadine Gordimer is the author of eleven previous novels, as well as collections of stories and essays. She has received many awards, including the Booker Prize (for The Conservationist in 1974) and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.