July's People

A startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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.

"So flawlessly written that every one of its events seems chillingly, ominously possible."--Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 07/29/1982
ISBN: 9780140061406
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.10w x 0.45d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 71295 / July's People
Reading Level: 6.6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 8