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020 | _a9780140036961 | ||
024 | _a9431113 | ||
050 | _aPR9369.3.G6 | ||
082 | _a823 | ||
100 | 1 | _aNadine Gordimer | |
245 | 1 | _aA Guest of Honour | |
260 | _bPenguin Books | ||
300 | _a528 pages | ||
520 | _aJames Bray, an English colonial administrator who was expelled from a central African nation for siding with its black nationalist leaders, is invited back ten years later to join in the country's independence celebrations. As he witnesses the factionalism and violence that erupt as revolutionary ideals are subverted by ambition and greed, Bray is once again forced to choose sides, a choice that becomes both his triumph and his undoing. | ||
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