BookJuly's People
This novel tells a vividly striking story in such a true fashion that it's surprising she isn't reliving a true event. A great examination of race and culture.
/Carlos Reiner, United States
It transports you to a world so frightenly realized, it easily could've happened. It also shows how human nature can bring bring us together even when the world is falling apart.
/Carlos, United States
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The stories gives an impression about the life of people of Africa. Their hope, aspirations, dreams are reflected in the stories.
/Ananta, India
BookSix Feet of the Country
Ms. Gordimer skillfully portrays the myriad of emotions and dilemmas South Africans deal with in the wake of apartheid. This short story collection should be required reading for everyone!
/Kimberly Golden Malmgren, Sweden
BookThe Conservationist
As a Korean teenager familiar with the stories of gruesome Japanese colonialism, I focused on the distorted psychology of the conquerors: unjustified belief in their superiority over the conquered and their proprietorship of the land they stole. Such perverse logic infects their own soul as manifested in Mehring's distress and weak ego. Nadine silently captured the inner depravity of the conquerors, and thus the possibility of redemption.
/Nahae Kim, Korea,South
The beauty of South Africa so vivid you could run your fingers among the reeds. And the hero of so many merits but also with a terrifying weakness. A fantastic end.
/Joo, New Zealand
Nobody describes the banal and the everyday of what it was like to live during apartheid for white people. I can smell the landscape and the seasons when I read her.
/Carolize, South Africa
BookThe Lying Days
Nobody describes the Highveld of South Africa and the Natal coast as she does.
/Carolize, South Africa
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