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My Son's Story
- 277 pages · about 5 hours
- First published 1990
- 11 editions
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1 About this book
My Son's Story is the ninth novel by South African novelist Nadine Gordimer. It was written towards the end of the State of Emergency and first published in 1990. The next year, Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the Swedish Academy explicitly cited My Son's Story in their press release, calling it "ingenious and revealing and at the same time enthralling".
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Relationships
- South africa
- South African fiction
- Married people
- Adultery
- Apartheid
- Social conditions
- Family life
2 About Nadine Gordimer
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
3 More by Nadine Gordimer
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