A Sport of Nature
First edition (South Africa)
AuthorNadine Gordimer
CountrySouth Africa
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDavid Phillip (SA)
Jonathan Cape (UK)
Knopf (US)
Publication date
1987
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)

A Sport of Nature is a 1987 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer.

Plot

While still a secondary school student, Kim Capran decides to rename herself "Hillela".[1] Hillela joins the ANC, she marries a black man from the congress and has a child with him.[2][3] She travels to Dar es Salaam and Nairobi before returning to South Africa in the final pages as the wife of a fictitious President of Kenya.[3]

Reception

In Gordimer's Nobel Prize citation, "A Sport of Nature" was described as "[her] most hazardous undertaking."[4]

References

  1. ↑ Maureen Howard (3 May 1987). "The Rise of Hillela, The Fall of South Africa". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 January 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Kakutani, Michiko (22 April 1987). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 6 October 2009. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
  3. 1 2 Gray, Paul (6 April 1987). "Books: Life in The Territory of Exile A SPORT OF NATURE". Time. Archived from the original on 22 October 2010. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
  4. ↑ Wästberg, Per (26 April 2001). "Nadine Gordimer and the South African Experience". nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 18 June 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2013.


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