· THE HOUSE GUN. by Nadine Gordimer ‧RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, A passionately schematic moral anatomy of a murder. Gordimer's (None to Accompany Me, , etc.) resolutely small cast of characters embodies uncomfortable social truths about contemporary South Africa—truths challenged in the course of the novel, which finally seems more universal than local. ``This is not a Author: Nadine Gordimer. · The House Gun. by Nadine Gordimer. The House Gun is Nadine Gordimer's twelfth novel, her second set in post-apartheid South Africa. For Harald and Claudia Lingard, the passively liberal, white couple at the center of the story, not much has changed in the political transition from apartheid to majority rule, from F.W. de Klerk to Nelson Mandela. Harald and Claudia live in comfort . · “The House Gun is like a well-cut diamond. Its many angles and planes catch the light and illuminate understanding, laying bare the emotions of a people caught in the transition from one world to another.” —The Orlando Sentinel “Gordimer is a major literary figure, working at the peak of her craft The House Gun is an awe-inspiring work.”Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
A passionately schematic moral anatomy of a murder. Gordimer's (None to Accompany Me, , etc.) resolutely small cast of characters embodies uncomfortable social truths about contemporary South Africa—truths challenged in the course of the novel, which finally seems more universal than local. ``This is not a detective story,'' declares the writer quite early, but rather an opportunity to. Nadine Gordimer's novel is a passionate narrative of the complex manifestations of that final test of human relations we call love. It moves with the restless pace of living itself; if it is a parable of present violence, it is also an affirmation of the will to reconciliation that starts where it must, between individual men and women. The House Gun. by Nadine Gordimer. THE LITERARY WORK. A novel set in Cape Town, South Africa, in ; published in SYNOPSIS. A young man from an upper-middle-class family shoots and kills a housemate. As his case moves towards trial, his parents grapple with how this could have happened and with conflicting emotions towards him and each other.
The House Gun. by Nadine Gordimer. The House Gun is Nadine Gordimer's twelfth novel, her second set in post-apartheid South Africa. For Harald and Claudia Lingard, the passively liberal, white couple at the center of the story, not much has changed in the political transition from apartheid to majority rule, from F.W. de Klerk to Nelson Mandela. Harald and Claudia live in comfort and safety until one evening when they discover "something terrible has happened.". The “house gun” refers to the pistol bought by the household of which Duncan is somewhat a part. (Duncan lives not in the house shared by Jespersen and the others but slightly apart, in a. The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer is a legal mystery written at the time of Apartheid in South Africa. The novel follows the story of a young man's parents, Claudia and Harald Lingard for the majority of the book. The mother is a doctor who is described as liberal minded thinker while the father is a lawyer and conservative Catholic.
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