- Fiction, South Africans, Fathers and daughters, Fathers and daughters in fiction
Par une romancière sud-africaine de talent, une plongée dans l'enfer quotidien - violence et suspicion - du racisme. L'héroïne est la fille d'un médecin blanc, condamné à la prison à vie, pour avoir organisé la lutte politique contre l'apartheid.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Nadine Gordimer
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 361
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- French, English, Polish
- ISBN
- 9788375080698
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Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity". Gordimer was one of the most honoured female writers of her generation. She received the Booker Prize for *The Conservationist* (1974), and the Central News Agency Literary Award for *The Conservationist, Burger's Daughter* (1979) and *July's People* (1981). Gordimer's writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that regime, works such as *Burger's Daughter* were banned. She was activ
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