July's People - Hardcover

July's People.

Zustand: Gut. 1.Aufl. 160 S.; 8°. Sehr gutes Ex. - EA. - For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now it is war. As riots and arson spread all over South Africa, cities are battlegrounds, and radio and television are under siege. The fighting is fierce around the airports where white people are mobbing to board aircraft and escape. Bam and Maureen Smales have no such option. The white couple take up their servant July's suggestion and drive with their children to his remote home village. For fifteen years July has been the decently-treated black servant living in their yard, totally dependent upon them. Now he becomes their host, their saviour -their keeper. When the Smaleses used to jog round surburban blocks under the jacaranda trees they didn't know what they were running from . or where to. They were living a way of life that was already over. Their only preparations to meet a new one are the malaria pills and toilet rolls Maureen has remembered to bring along, and Barn's hunting gun. Owing their survival and subsistence to July, they are forced to change their relationship to him; but that is not all that is unforeseen. The frame of white power once knocked apart, there are extraordinary changes in the relationship of the wife and husband to each other, and between the parents and their three children, as each no longer has the familiar props of white urban life with which to define his or her role in that other power structure, the family. And between July and his wife, the white people bring an invasion from a place in his life a migrant worker's woman never shares: the unseen presence of his city woman. Anybody could predict that this story may happen. Nobody but Nadine Gordimer could convey how, with the same acute and subtle insight into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between people in South Africa. July's People is about South Africa today, yesterday - and perhaps tomorrow. (Verlagstext) ISBN 0224019325 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Fadengehefteter Originalpappband mit Schutzumschlag. Artikel-Nr. 1055901

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