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"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- give us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites."
Written by Nobel Prize in Literature Winner Nadine Gordimer.
"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 News Leader
"Gordimer knows this complex emotional and political territory all too well and writes about it superbly."-Newsweek
"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- give us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites."
Written by Nobel Prize in Literature Winner Nadine Gordimer.
"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 News Leader
"Gordimer knows this complex emotional and political territory all too well and writes about it superbly."-Newsweek
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