The new South Africa is as much a character in The House Gun as the
old regime was in Gordimer's earlier work. Admittedly, the themes
of time and place are, at first, not easily spotted. It seems as
though the central story - a crime passionnel and its effect on the
perpetrator's family - could have happened in any country in the
world. But it is only when Gordimer points out how casually a
loaded gun might be kept handy in a shared household of volatile
twenty-somethings, and left out on the communal table in case of
intrusion, that this becomes specifically a South African story.
Gordimer's portraits are razor-sharp but not unsympathetic,
exploring issues of guilt and misunderstanding that go beyond the
generation gap. A meticulously written, absorbing novel. (Kirkus
UK)
Harold, a respected director of an insurance company, and his doctor wife, Claudia, are faced with something they believed could never happen to them: their son has committed murder. What kind of loyalty do parents owe a son who has committed this horror? And where is it they have failed him?
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