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A World of Strangers is a 1958 novel by South African novelist and Nadine Gordimer. The novel included mixed reviews, drawing criticism for its pedantic explanation of Gordimer's worldview. The novel was banned in South Africa for 12 years.
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Mar 8, 2012 · A world of strangers. by. Gordimer, Nadine. Publication date. 1962. Publisher. Penguin. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary.
It’s reminiscent of EM Forster’s Passage to India – it is written in a very British mode…In some ways the book is about what happens to people when they come to a big city and how South African black people – who were 98% rural at the beginning of the 20th century – become urbanised, semi-residents of the city, where they had to ...
Jun 5, 1984 · In A World of Strangers, she is a keen reporter of the minutiae of daily life in 1950s South Africa. Gordimer juxtaposes the dim sameness and shallow veneer of the lavish excess of white South African society life with the restricted and sometimes chaotic lives of the South African blacks.
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Mar 15, 2012 · A World of Strangers. Nadine Gordimer. A&C Black, Mar 15, 2012 - Fiction - 272 pages. Toby Hood, a young Englishman, shuns the politics and the causes his liberal parents passionately support.
