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The House Gun (Paperback, New edition): Nadine Gordimer

The House Gun (Paperback, New edition)

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 1999
Authors: Nadine Gordimer
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 304
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-4257-5
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN: 0-7475-4257-0
Barcode: 9780747542575

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