A Guest of Honour (novel)

A Guest of Honour is a 1970 fictional novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer. Published four years after her novel The Late Bourgeois World, the novel is a political novel that explores the role of revolutionary ideas in new African states.[1]

A Guest of Honour
First edition cover
AuthorNadine Gordimer
CountrySouth Africa
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
PublisherViking Press
Publication date
October 22, 1970
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages504
ISBN9780670356546

Critical reception

The New York Times reviewer Thomas Fisk called the novel "a long, spacious, comprehensive work of fiction" which has "something Olympian, something magnificently confident [about how] this South African writer goes about her work."[1] Fisk's review focuses on the stylistic qualities of the novel, calling the characters "exceedingly human: complicated, erring, driven by fleshy appetites and by the loftiest resolves" and discussing the setting as a "landscape so tactile and so sensuous that it becomes a participant in everything that occurs".[1]

References

  1. Lask, Thomas (30 October 1970). "'A Guest of Honor'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 4 November 2015.

Further reading


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