Author | Nadine Gordimer |
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Country | South Africa |
Language | English |
Genre | Fiction |
Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | October 22, 1970 |
Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
Pages | 504 |
ISBN | 9780670356546 |
A Guest of Honour is a 1970 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer. A Guest of Honour explores the role of revolutionary ideas in new African states.[1]
The New York Times reviewer Thomas Fisk called the novel "a long, spacious, comprehensive work of fiction" which has "something Olympian, something magnificently confident [about how] this South African writer goes about her work."[1] Fisk's review focuses on the stylistic qualities of the novel, calling the characters "exceedingly human: complicated, erring, driven by fleshy appetites and by the loftiest resolves" and discussing the setting as a "landscape so tactile and so sensuous that it becomes a participant in everything that occurs".[1]