A Sport of Nature
1987 novel by Nadine Gordimer
 First edition (South Africa) | |
| Author | Nadine Gordimer |
|---|---|
| Country | South Africa |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | David Phillip (SA) Jonathan Cape (UK) Knopf (US) |
Publication date | 1987 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
A Sport of Nature is a 1987 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer.
Plot
While still a secondary school student, Kim Capran decides to rename herself "Hillela".[1] Hillela joins the ANC, she marries a black man from the congress and has a child with him.[2][3] She travels to Dar es Salaam and Nairobi before returning to South Africa in the final pages as the wife of a fictitious President of Kenya.[3]
Reception
In Gordimer's Nobel Prize citation, "A Sport of Nature" was described as "[her] most hazardous undertaking."[4]
References
- ^ Maureen Howard (3 May 1987). "The Rise of Hillela, The Fall of South Africa". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 January 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
- ^ Kakutani, Michiko (22 April 1987). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 6 October 2009. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
- ^ a b Gray, Paul (6 April 1987). "Books: Life in The Territory of Exile A SPORT OF NATURE". Time. Archived from the original on 22 October 2010. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
- ^ Wästberg, Per (26 April 2001). "Nadine Gordimer and the South African Experience". nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 18 June 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
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Works by Nadine Gordimer
- The Lying Days (1953)
- A World of Strangers (1958)
- Occasion for Loving (1963)
- The Late Bourgeois World (1966)
- A Guest of Honour (1970)
- The Conservationist (1974)
- Burger's Daughter (1979)
- July's People (1981)
- A Sport of Nature (1987)
- My Son's Story (1990)
- None to Accompany Me (1994)
- The Pickup (2001)
- Get a Life (2005)
- No Time Like the Present (2012)
- The Soft Voice of the Serpent (1952)
- Loot and Other Stories (2003)
- Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black (2007)
- What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South African Censorship Works (1980)
- Telling Tales (2004)
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