Jennie Sidney, Linda Cookson, Nadine Gordimer, Roy Blatchford — July's People

Paperback; 1e druk, 1982; Bloomsbury Paperbacks; 176pp.; Krabbel met pen op de Franse pagina; papier gedonkerd -- Conditie: Redelijk; When South Africa is riven by war and the Smales, a white couple, take refuge in the village of their former servant July, their relationships are completely transformed. "So flawlessly written that every one of its events seems chillingly, ominously possible."-Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review A startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A violent war for equality has come to the white suburbs, driving out the ruling minority 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-gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.; Engels; ISBN10: 0140061401, ISBN13: 9780140061406