by NadineGordimer (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Edition: New
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 24 Feb 1983
ISBN 10: 0140061401
ISBN 13: 9780140061406
Book Overview: Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991
Gordimer knows this complex emotional and political territory all too well and writes about it superbly. --Newsweek
Gordimer's art has achieved and sustained a rare beauty. Her prose has a density and sparsity that one finds in the greatest writers. --The New Leader
Nadine Gordimer writes more knowingly about South Africa than anyone else. --The New York Times