A Sport of Nature

Praise for A Sport of Nature

‘Gordimer writes … with a relish that is sometimes wicked and an authority that seems absolute.’

— The New Yorker

‘There is an emotional tension in the prose that is cumulative and subtle. The novel gathers force like a slow-moving avalanche of words, breaking from time to time into italicized passages close to prose poems. With Hillela, Nadine Gordimer continues to bear testimony that writing can matter as much as skin and hair.’

— Washington Post Book World

‘A Sport of Nature is a valiant, beautifully rendered attempt to do justice, its heart unbowed by the enormity of its burden.’

— The Boston Globe

‘What is riveting in this novel is the people themselves, the moments, the situations. The triumph of A Sport of Nature is not so much Hillela’s triumph as the exquisite accuracy with which Gordimer has, once again, exposed the complicated nervous system of her country.’

— Lynn Freed, San Francisco Chronicle

‘Fine, incisive … Wraps moral and political struggle in elegantly spun incident and luminous prose. … Gordimer distills political events into personal pain, and the pain depicted here … resonates.’

— Kirkus Reviews

‘Achieves a remarkable imaginative integration of private and public experience. … A brilliant, engrossing novel’

— Library Journal