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Book Review of July's People

July's People
July's People
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
reviewed on
Helpful Score: 2


Fascinating, but depressing. A liberal white couple in South Africa are helped by one of their long-term black servants to escape to his village during the upheaval at the end of apartheid. Their children quickly adapt to "native" life and are happy, but the parents are another story. I thought the writing very good and perceptive. Didn't like the fact that the story ends up in the air, but then again, plot was not the point.