361 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 1985 by Penguin Books.
Par une romancière sud-africaine de talent, une plongée dans l'enfer quotidien - violence et suspicion - du racisme. L'héroïne est la fille d'un médecin blanc, condamné à la prison à vie, pour avoir organisé la lutte politique contre l'apartheid.
really liked it. great insight in South African anti-apartheid movement (from a particular perspective)
Nadine Gordimer has been on my list of authors I want to read for quite a while. When Desmond Tutu died, I looked for some good South Africa literature and Gordimer popped onto my radar again. The story is of the daughter of a fictitious South African Anti-Apartheid leader. It captures the issues of being the offspring of someone famous and the turmoil in South Africa during the Apartheid years.
At times, Gordimer's writing reminds me of Virginia Woolf. It is hauntingly beautiful.
Perhaps it is because the book is from a previous era or something about the writing style, but as much as I loved this book, it did not grab me in the same way some other books have and so I've chosen to give it four stars instead of five. If I could be more precise, I'd give it about four and a half stars.
