July's People
by Nadine Gordimer
A white family flees revolution and finds themselves.
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Gordimer imagines a near-future South Africa where the Black liberation uprising has succeeded and a white liberal family has fled to the village of their servant July. The novel is a dispatch from inside a thought experiment about power — what happens when the structures that defined every relationship are stripped away? Who are the Smales family without their house, their car, their authority? Who is July without his deference? Published in 1981, it remains the most searching fictional interrogation of what white South African liberalism actually was.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- South Africa • Southern Africa
- Voice
- Written by a South African author
- Themes
- True Cost of EmpireAfter Empire
