To be jointly published with The Conservationist as part of an immensely exciting on-going promotion of Nadine Gordimer by Bloomsbury Nadine Gordimer is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Booker Prize

For years, it has 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 native 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.