Burger’s Daughter by Nadine Gordimer Born in 1923 in the small mining town of Springs, South Africa, Nadine Gordimer is a white South African of Jewish descent. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, immigrated from Lithuania to escape the pogroms there,...

Burger's Daughter is a novel by South African Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, originally published in Britain in 1979 by Jonathan Cape Ltd. It follows the life of Rosa, the title character, as she comes to terms with her father Lionel's legacy as an...

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Nadine Gordimer's method in her last novel, The Conservationist, and in [Burger's Daughter] compares with the naturalist's. She transfixes unlikely and, in this case, suppressed specimens of African life, slices them into sections and subjects them to microscopic scrutiny; it's a method which rejoices in fine detail and is inevitably partial but has the merit of getting in close and conveying with great fidelity the very texture and grain of particular lives and why they may be c...

Nadine Gordimer … has a great subject [for The Burger's Daughter]—a country playing out an historical tragedy—and it is astonishing what a big subject will do for a writer. Although people who care intensely about such things might not care to hear it, one of the things that a big subject can do is relieve a novelist of the burdens of nicety of style. In the course of Miss Gordimer's longish novel I came across many a description that seemed to me very far off the mark; at...

Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter is a remarkable book at the same time that it is difficult, repetitious, dense, and occasionally overwritten. It is remarkable in that it explores the political truths of 20th-century apartheid using the Afrikaner Burger family; their friends, black and white; their relatives; their Communist party allies and enemies; and most particularly their daughter Rosa…. The novel's time-span is great enough for us to observe the ideological changes amon...