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Nadine Gordimer: July's people (1982, Penguin) 4 stars

When South Africa is riven by war and the Smales, a white couple, take refuge …

Review of "July's people" on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

A compact gem that says so much in so few pages. First published in 1981, it is still relevant in its portrayal of relations between races, the threat of race war, and the precariousness and duplicitousness of being a “liberal” in a changing society.