July's People - Rambling Readers

English language

Published March 15, 2005

ISBN:: 978-0-7475-7838-3

(2 reviews)

July's People is a 1981 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. It is set in a near-future version of South Africa where apartheid is ended through a civil war. Gordimer wrote the book before the end of apartheid as her prediction of how it would end. The book was banned in South Africa after its publication, and later under the post-apartheid government.

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Rachel Unkefer reviewed July's People by Nadine Gordimer

Review of "July's people" on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

A compact gem that says so much in so few pages. First published in 1981, it is still relevant in its portrayal of relations between races, the threat of race war, and the precariousness and duplicitousness of being a ‚Äúliberal‚Äù in a changing society.

GrandmaY

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Oct. 3, 2018