April 2011 Guest Editor Lesley Lokko on Nadine Gordimer...
One of the first lines of the extraordinary novel, July’s People, by the South African writer goes, ‘You like to have some cup of tea?’ It was the first time I’d ever seen African-accented English in written prose and from that moment on, I was hooked. I grew up in West Africa with a host of accents and languages all around me and I can still recall exactly what it was like to see that world reflected through someone else’s eyes and words.
I loved Enid Blyton as a child but Daryl Rivers’ world was a whole galaxy away from mine, and reading Gordimer, aged sixteen, difficult as she sometimes is, sparked a life-long love affair...and is probably the reason I now live in Johannesburg. Books really can and do change your life.
For years, it has 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 native village.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds.
July's People features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Paperback, Ebook. £9.89, down from the £10.99 cover price. In Stock.
July's People was written by Nadine Gordimer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
July's People has 195 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.
