I am getting busy now that university is in full session, so only have time to read short novels... fun to go to the library and just look for thin books. I can't say that this was a memorable book... Written during the 1960s. Presumably at the time these and other books of Gordimer's caused a stir by the very unlikelihood of the subject matter: white South Africans going over to the ANC side. The beauty is in the thickly layered psychology of the central character and her ex-husband, who commits suicide after a botched bombing etc.
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