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020 _a9780140036961
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050 _aPR9369.3.G6
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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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