CAN'T PAY? WON'TPAY! ~ CRITERION BredfGard30796565 S.T.A. L.I.N.I.S.M A•N•D B•O•L•S.H•E•V.I.S.M Socialist Challenge PAMPHLET 45p 45p, available The Other Bookshop, 328 Upper St London N1. Summer holidays give most of us the chance to have a good read Over the next week, we'll be carrying readers have enjoyed and would recommend to others week Gelderen's choice for a good holiday book is Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordiner.
This is the who like to read good fiction on holiday but who, drenched beaches aperitifs, do not altogether want to forget that politics is still there.
Nadine Gordiner is one of the greatest writers of fiction living today and the winner of several literary prizes.
Rosa is the daughter of Lionel Burger, an Afrikaner OlIc leaders African Character obviously based on Braaa Communist Fischer. Rosa's earliest memory is, as a șchoolchild prison. Her father eventually dies in Pretoria jail.
books bulent Charlie Van ideal book for those memorating while lying on the sunsipping their the very real world of South who became words of the South visiting her Nadine Gordiner skilfully unfolds the story of Rosa's subsequent develuncill as a wonal aru a Desona against the background of the turpolitical environment of the apartheid republic Although she had not played ar active political role since the tragic death of her father, she is picked up and detained without charges during big demonstrations died. T those who Soweto, to be subsequently framed ir a treason trial. In prison she once again finds her political identity.
The book was briefly banned in Africa. Surprisingly the ban was lifted despite its overt condemna tion of the system. One chapter con tains nothing but the manifesto of the Students Representative Council, which ends with the stirring FORWARD FOREVER BACKWARD NEVER!
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordiner is published by Penguin and the Other Bookshop (price f1.95).
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