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Book Information: Lying Days, the

Lying Days, the (1953) [Novel]
by Nadine Gordimer Rating: No votes (Rate!)
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Nadine Gordimer's first novel, published in 1953, tells the story of Helen Shaw, daughter of white middle-class parents in a small gold-mining town in South Africa. As Helen comes of age, so does her awareness grow of the African life around her. Her involvement, as a bohemian student, with young blacks leads her into complex relationships of emotion and action in a culture of dissension.

Original title: The Lying Days
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics