TY - BOOK AU - Nadine Gordimer TI - The Lying Days SN - 9780140233674 AV - PR9369.3.G6 U1 - 823 PB - Penguin Books KW - Historical Fiction N2 - Nadine Gordimer's first novel, published in 1953, tells the story of Helen Shaw, daughter of white middle-class parents in a small gold-mining town in South Africa. As Helen comes of age, so does her awareness grow of the African life around her. Her involvement, as a bohemian student, with young blacks leads her into complex relationships of emotion and action in a culture of dissension ER -