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Alice Cuprill
Mar 26, 2015 rated it really liked it
This book was a revelation. I had not read Nadine Gordimer before and will be picking up her other works. The novel tells the story of a young White woman growing up in apartheid South Africa. She is the daughter of anti-apartheid activists and while the book exposes the brutality of that system, it is really a novel about the search for identity by a person about whom all things are presumed. No one asks her what she really believes, what she is willing to give up or for whom, instead the gover ...more
Liz M
Jan 29, 2016 marked it as do-not-own
Shelves: 500-women
Kai Coates
Dec 30, 2013 marked it as to-read
Erika
Dec 25, 2008 marked it as to-read
Genia Lukin
Nov 23, 2017 rated it did not like it
Shelves: 1001-books, other
Lise Petrauskas
Mar 17, 2016 marked it as to-read
Shelves: africa, 500-women
Lauren
Jun 23, 2025 marked it as to-read
Nike
Feb 08, 2023 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition