Burger's Daughter
by Nadine Gordimer
What does a daughter owe a father's cause?
you want to understand the white anti-apartheid activist's experience from inside — the cost, the doubt, the inheritance
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Rosa Burger's father was a celebrated anti-apartheid activist who died in prison. Rosa has spent her whole life as her father's daughter — defined by a struggle she didn't choose. Gordimer uses Rosa's attempt to escape that identity to ask the hardest question about political commitment: what do you owe a movement that consumed your family? One of the Nobel laureate's finest novels. The dispatch from inside the specific experience of being born into resistance and having to decide whether to continue it.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- South Africa • Southern Africa
- Voice
- Written by a South African author
- Themes
- True Cost of Empire
