A Guest of Honour
First edition cover
AuthorNadine Gordimer
CountrySouth Africa
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
PublisherViking Press
Publication date
October 22, 1970
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages504
ISBN9780670356546

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]

Critical reception

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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Lask, Thomas (30 October 1970). "'A Guest of Honor'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 30 October 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.

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