House Gun - Nadine Gordimer

Descriere House Gun - Nadine Gordimer

Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer presents a passionate narrative about the loyalty of a couple to devoted to its son, who has shot the friend he discovers making love to his female companion. \n \nWith the scaffolding of a courtroom drama and the moral underpinnings of the state's responsibility, the novel infuses an isolated crime of passion with the atmospheric pressure of a country reeling from its own past. --The Boston Sunday Globe \n \nA house gun, like a house cat: a fact of ordinary daily life. How else can you defend yourself against intruders and thieves in post-apartheid South Africa? The respected executive director of an insurance company, Harald, and his doctor wife, Claudia, are faced with something that could never happen to them: Their son, Duncan, has murdered a man. \n \nIn this powerful and disturbing anatomy of a murder, Nadine Gordimer examines the effect of violence on the complicated web of love that holds together parents and children, friends and lovers.\n

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St. Martins Press-3pl

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ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9781250007728

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1

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