7.6 /10 1 Votes
Language English Originally published 1987 Country South Africa Genres Fiction, Novel | 3.8/5 Goodreads Publication date 1987 Awards Anisfield-Wolf Book Award | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher David Phillip (SA)
Jonathan Cape (UK)
Knopf (US) Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Similar Nadine Gordimer books, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Sport of Nature is a 1987 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer.
Contents
Plot
While still a secondary school student, Kim Capran decides to rename herself "Hillela". Hillela joins the ANC, she marries a black man from the congress and has a child with him. She travels to Dar es Salaam, Nairobi before returning to South Africa as one of the wives of a fictitious first President of South Africa.
Reception
In Gordimer's Nobel Prize citation, "A Sport of Nature" was described as "[her] most hazardous undertaking."
References
A Sport of Nature Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA