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    <body><![CDATA[At what point do you choose what you are already born into? Gordimer explores this puzzle in her densely lyrical novel, spinning out a fictional life for a fictional daughter of a fictional white anti-apartheid activist in 1970s South Africa. The daughter's ambivalence about having been born into a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1366745">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the story of Rosa Burger, a young woman raised by political dissidents in apartheid South Africa, who now must decide what role she will play in her country. Gordimer is the grand dame of modern, white South African writers, and this is my favorite of her novels. The narrative style could be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1363088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never read Gordimer before, aside from a short story in an anthology, so it's hard for me to say whether or not this is representative of her other novels and stories.... but it sure felt idiosyncratic, and brilliant, and wonderful.<br/><br/>Burger's daughter concerns Rosa Burger, daughter of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52879114">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is incredibly dense, but beautifully written, once you adapt to gordimer's style, which she forces you to do with her brutal talent. <br/><br/>it's a good read for someone constantly struggling with the question of <em>what to do</em> with social injustice, especially when it is legally sanctione...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19114995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7498384">
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    <body><![CDATA[Ooh. Ouch. Writing in fragments. I get it. Important South African Literature. I get it. Nobel Prize winning author. I get it. <br/>Writing a book in which nothing happens. I don't get it. <br/>There's much to the writing here, but it's just not worth the effort. <br/>An essay disguised as a nove...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this many, many, years ago, when it first came out and I haven't re-read it, but I remember being struck by the intelligence of the writer and I have continued to read her work...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gordimer writes well.  Her dialog techniques are interesting, but once acclimating to them the story reads well.  Gordimer's stories are eye-opening, uncomfortable, and important.   ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been trying to read this for, oh, abuot 5 years now.  Not an indication of how good it is, just a tough book to get through.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="4344301">
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    <body><![CDATA[I have heard so many good things about Nadine Gordimer as an author, but I found this one kind of tedious reading.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book years ago and remember very little about it, except that I was not satisfied with the ending.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every sentence manages to end in a way that completely makes you lose track of how it started. This one's a skimmer. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good novel about human relationships during Apartheid.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic Gordimer. Terrific in cutting to the heart of S. African dilemmas as they touch daily life--all the tough issues, psychologically very interesting, if I'm remembering right.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I was reading this book, I didn't find myself very impressed by the writing.  I found the story sort of confused and difficult to follow because the point of views shifts and the first-person portions are, by design, confusing.  Somehow, the story really got in my head, so I have no choice but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65754280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book (you know by now I love everything Nadine Gordimer writes!)<br/>She draws the protagonist Rosa Burger so fully as a person and as the moral center of the book and of apartheid South Africa. And also fully draws several of the black and Afrikaner characters. <br/>Her style is wond...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39316895">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book of Gordimer's that I always recommend to my young friends.  I think maybe Meggie read it and didn't like it?  But I loved it and I read it way past my youth, but I think it's an absolutely inspirational book, because the young woman is so strong, yet so human.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Being an activist who believes in violent and non-violent revolution is kinda INTENSE!<br/><br/>Who knew.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love her honesty, human weakness, horniness and questioning of authority.]]></body>
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