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South African writer Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. Her seventh novel, Burger's Daughter, focuses upon the daughter of a white, communist Afrikaner hero. Based partly on fact, successively banned and unbanned by the South African authorities, the novel has also... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Rosa Burger: Add a description of this character.
- Nadine Gordimer
- Lionel Burger
- Baasie
- Katya
- Conrad
- Colette Swan
- Marisa Kgosana
- Cathy Burger
- Bernard Chabalier
- Bram Fischer
- Mannoni
- Slovo
- Daughter
- Tony
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Clare Terblanche
- Steve Biko
- Helen Shaw
- Noel De Witt
- Susan Gardner
- Mandela
- Stephen Clingman
- Marlow
- Zwelinzima
- Doris Lessing
- Marx
- Heinemann
- Vorster
- Rilke
- Jessie Stilwell
- Brandt Vermeulen
- Orde Greer
- Nels
First Sentence edit
IN JULY 1980 SUSAN GARDNER sought an interview in Johannesburg with Nadine Gordimer to discuss her 1979 novel, Burger's Daughter.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0195147170
Page Count: 240
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0195147170
Page Count: 240
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › History & Criticism › Literary Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › African
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British
- Books › Nonfiction › Women's Studies › Women Writers
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Books & Reading › Women Writers & Feminist Theory
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