Nadine Gordimer
HOUSE GUN
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With the scaffolding of a courtroom drama and the moral underpinnings of the state's responsibility, the novel infuses an isolated crime of passion with the atmospheric pressure of a country reeling from its own past. --The Boston Sunday GlobeA house gun, like a house cat: a fact of ordinary daily life. How else can you defend yourself against intruders and thieves in post-apartheid South Africa? The respected executive director of an insurance company, Harald, and his doctor wife, Claudia, are faced with something that could never happen to them: Their son, Duncan, has murdered a man. In this powerful and disturbing anatomy of a murder, Nadi…
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With the scaffolding of a courtroom drama and the moral underpinnings of the state's responsibility, the novel infuses an isolated crime of passion with the atmospheric pressure of a country reeling from its own past. --The Boston Sunday GlobeA house gun, like a house cat: a fact of ordinary daily life. How else can you defend yourself against intruders and thieves in post-apartheid South Africa? The respected executive director of an insurance company, Harald, and his doctor wife, Claudia, are faced with something that could never happen to them: Their son, Duncan, has murdered a man. In this powerful and disturbing anatomy of a murder, Nadine Gordimer examines the effect of violence on the complicated web of love that holds together parents and children, friends and lovers.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-250-00772-8
- EAN: 9781250007728
- Produktnummer: 12054173
- Verlag: St. Martins Press-3pl
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 302 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.7 cm 406 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 406
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