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July's People

Nadine Gordimer

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 3.53 | 6165 Users | 513 Reviews

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Title	:	July's People
Author	:	Nadine Gordimer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	July 29th 1982 by Penguin Books (first published 1981)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Southern Africa. South Africa. Historical. Historical Fiction. Nobel Prize

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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—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.

Nadine Gordimer was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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Original Title:	July's People
ISBN:	0140061401 (ISBN13: 9780140061406)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	South Africa
Literary Awards:	Premio Grinzane Cavour Nominee for Narrativa Straniera (1985)

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Nadine Gordimer was easily one of the best writers in the world, and it was fitting that she garnered the most prestigious literary awards during her lifetime, including the Nobel. She had a long career in writing or producing an astonishing amount of fiction, short and long. The glittering quality of her writings stunned many readers.She created memorable characters in her work which was often weaved around the turbulent political and social mileau of her native South Africa. Many of her fellow

The 5 stars you see flashing at you are not just any 5 stars. They are the end result of a whole day of deliberation. I happen to be one of those people who are not stingy with their ratings. If a book manages to bestow equal importance on both the prose and the message contained within in such a way that neither overshadows the other and both meld into a single entity of an unforgettable work of literature/fiction capable of whisking the reader away to a special place, then it can take my 5

Okay, switching gears from "women who need to get married or they will end up destitute", here's a book from the more postcolonial end of the pile.July's People is set during the apartheid uprisings in South Africa, during the early 1980s, and one thing I really realized as I read was how ignorant I am about what all was going on at that point. I remember studying it in school a bit (there was a movie with Kalvin Klein with a South African accent...?). The only other source of my information has

All the troubles of apartheid-era South Africa are encapsulated in this slim and beautifully-written book. Just when you think that you know the situation, you understand what is going on, the Chief is introduced and you realise that looking at it from the point of view of the (white) Smales and the in-two-worlds view of their ex-'boy' is only the half of it. It's black against white, but not for liberation alone but for power.There are many reviews of the story of July's People. I am glad I

Great premise, I just couldn't get into Nadine Gordimer's writing style.

I know, I know....I am supposed to have had some great cathartic experience from reading this book but it just did not happen. I don't particularly enjoy this style of writing. It seems disjointed and confusing and was like trying to read something written on a bumpy ride in the country. The story was okay, could see parts of where it was going. All in all, not enjoyable. I read it mainly because it was on my list of have to reads and I was very glad it was a short book and was very glad when I

The crazy thing is that this is fiction: apartheid in South Africa somehow didn't end in war. People actually got together and said this isn't going to work, and they had an election, and Mandela won, and that was that. (This is the short version, okay?)So July's People is sortof science fiction. Written in 1981, about a decade before apartheid fell, it presents how Gordimer, a white anti-apartheid activist and a Nobel prize winner, predicted the fall would go. Her white protagonists (also