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A Guest of Honour

by Nadine Gordimer · 1970

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James Bray, an English colonial administrator who was expelled from a central African nation for siding with its black nationalist leaders, is invited back ten years later to join in the country's independence celebrations. As he witnesses the factionalism and violence that erupt as revolutionary ideals are subverted by ambition and greed, Bray is once again forced to choose sides, a choice that becomes both his triumph and his undoing.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1970s1970sMore like thisLess of thisAfricaAfricaMore like thisLess of thisSouth AfricaSouth AfricaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 557 pages

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