James Bray, an English colonial administrator who was expelled from a central African nation for siding with its black nationalist leaders, is invited back ten years later to join in the country`s independence celebrations. As he witnesses the factionalism and violence that erupt as revolutionary ideals are subverted by ambition and greed, Bray is once again forced to choose sides, a choice that becomes both his triumph and his undoing.
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This rich story collection will be reminder to Nadine Gordimer`s countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her imaginative power. A woman gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband`s celo; a wife reads her husband`s mood by the scent in the nape of his neck; a newly emigrated couple are divided by visual obsession, he with his native Budapest, she with South African suburbia. With consummate artistry and unexpected flashes of humor, Gordimer illustrates the showdowns, standoffs and highlights of human intimacy while the showdowns, standoffs and highlights of human intimacy while penetrating the nuances of immigration, national identity and race.
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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, a liberal white couple and three young children, are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July whilst living as equals in the same impoverished community - the shifts in character and relationships - gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites in a divided South Africa.
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Playing truant one afternoom, a shoolboy bumps into his father coming out of the cinema with a woman. It`s a shattering moment for the boy, but worse, his father is dissident Coloured teacher, and his affair is no common case of marital infidelity. This is South Africa under apartheid, and his mistress is a white woman.
MY SON`S STORY tells of a family threatened not only by sexual betrayal but also by the terror of state persecution. A story of both domestic and political conflict, it asks what price we must pay for love - of another human being or of integrity and freedom.
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