Burger's Daughter
Nadine Gordimer · 1923–2014 · South Africa
Why it matters
The daughter of a martyred anti-apartheid hero struggles to claim a life of her own outside the struggle. Gordimer's most searching novel of political inheritance: banned in South Africa on publication.
At a glance
political novelpsychological novelbildungsroman
Difficulty 7/10slow pace361 pagesDense, digressive sentences and shifting narrators trace a fractured political consciousness.
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