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A Guest of Honour

Nadine Gordimer

  • 523 pages · about 9 hours
  • First published 1970
  • 7 editions
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1 About this book

A Guest of Honour is a 1970 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer. A Guest of Honour follows the character British Colonel James Bray in a newly independent African nation whose new government does not live up to revolutionary ideals. The novel explores neocolonialism, and the role of revolutionary ideas in new African states.

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  • Africa
  • Social conditions
  • Postcolonialism

2 About Nadine Gordimer

1923–2014

Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity". Gordimer was one of the most honoured female writers of her generation.

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