July's People

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by Nadine Gordimer

For years, it had been what is called a “deteriorating situation.” Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family—liberal whites—are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July—the shifts in character and relationships—gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.

Nadine Gordimer was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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You like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done for their kind.

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You like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done for their kind.

— Nadine Gordimer, July's People