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A Sport of Nature

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Wikipedia article




'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". Hillela joins the ANC, she marries a black man from the congress and has a child with him. 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.

Reception



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

References



Category:1987 novels

Category:20th-century South African novels

Category:Apartheid novels

Category:Novels by Nadine Gordimer

Category:Novels set in Africa


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