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Title	:	A Sport of Nature
Author	:	Nadine Gordimer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	1988 by Penguin (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Fiction. Southern Africa. South Africa. Cultural. Africa. Nobel Prize. Novels

A Sport of Nature

Nadine Gordimer

Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 3.76 | 557 Users | 53 Reviews

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A Sport of Nature is a fictional history of the end of Apartheid . It is the story of a white Jewish privileged girl who is abandoned by her parents and brought up by her aunts. She doesn't fit in with her her up tight Aunt Olga or her liberal do gooder ,Aunt, Pauline.
At about age 16 or 17 Hillela is discovered in her cousin's bed. From this point, she uproots herself totally from her family and becomes "The Sport of Nature," a spontaneous mutation.
It is the 60's,70's even the 80's Hillella is true to herself. She finds comfort and gives comfort to the people she meets. Both men and women find her bright , charming, innocent and wise. Though she accepts aid from many, I can't think of a character who admits to feeling used. She is tremendously loyal to her friends and lovers, though sexual fidelity is not a concept to her.
The novel starts in South Africa and travels through many emerging countries in Africa, England and the U.S. The reader is taken through the unimproved homes of black Africans and the luxurious suites and manor like homes of the ambassadors, the affluent whites and the affluent blacks. Hillella, a high school drop out, manages to be integrally involved in Ivy League College lecturing,the inner sanctum in the revolution of South Africa and a mother. I think she might be the muse for Sheryl Sandberg's book Lean In. This is not an easy or quick read. Nadine Gordimer Is always insightful and challenging.

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Original Title:	A Sport of Nature
ISBN:	0140103295 (ISBN13: 9780140103298)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1988)

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This book was great. The main character, Hillela is strong without being forceful. At times, she appears to just be naive, young, innocent. Really, she is an observer, a learner, and highly adaptable. She seems to take life in stride, as the narration is of her life, not by her. This gives a feeling of a biography, and at times, as different character's perspectives are given, one is not sure the idea of Hillela one has is the true one.The book is set in the second half of the 20th century in



Very interesting story of what happened in south Africa during the apartheid era. the story is presented from the perspective of several members of a white Jewish family, some of whom were rich and others who were activists.

I'd define 'overwritten' with this book. Gordimer covers similar territories - although this novel in question seems a tad more aggrandized - in Burger's Daughter, and she does it there in a smaller, more powerful canvas. Interestingly enough, the protagonists of BD appear within these pages as throwaway references.

This has to be one of my favorite books. I am in awe of Gordimer, what she has tackled, and what has pulled off: A history of black nationalism in South Africa through the eyes of a white Jewish girl/woman from adolescence to her marriages to two black leaders to middle age. I'm going to copy another Goodread review that says it better than I can."Good gawd. Her writing is like nothing else--intense, intuitive, and challenging, both in style and content. It was such a rush for me to read

I have mixed feelings about this book. There are aspects of the writing style that I found annoying. I didn't like that speakers were never identified. I didn't like the ambiguity in time and place. It seemed annoying and unnecessary.Still there were things learned and understanding enhanced which is always a good thing..

Read this book in preparation for Africa; was able to get alot of relevant political history from it; I need to think more about it before writing a review worth anything - the protagonist still baffles me weeks later...