NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN LITERATURE
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE
A perfect example of what literature can give us that history books cannot. Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review
Steve and Jabulile, once clandestine lovers under a racist law forbidding sexual relations between black and white, are living in a newly tentatively free South Africa. Both were combatants in the struggle for freedom against apartheid, and now, he, a university lecturer, and she, a lawyer, are parents of children born in freedom. But as the ideals of this better life for all are challenged by political corruption, racial tensions, and the vast gap between affluence and poverty, Steve and Jabulile consider leaving the country they so vehemently fought to free. In telling their story, and the stories of their friends and families, Nadine Gordimer captures the fragmented essence of a nation, struggling to define itself.
The subject is contemporary, but Nadine Gordimer's treatment is, as ever, timeless. With a clear-eyed fierceness and an intimate understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul, she addresses her theme: the inextricable link between personal life and political, communal history.
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