The author's other works include "The Lying Days", "The Conversationist", "July's People", "My Son's Story" and "None to Accompany Me".

In this work, Nadine Gordimer unfolds the story of a young woman's slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of present-day South Africa. Her father's death in prison leaves Rosa Burger alone to explore the intricacies of what it actually means to be Burger's daughter.