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Title	:	A Sport of Nature
Author	:	Nadine Gordimer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	1988 by Penguin (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Fiction. Southern Africa. South Africa. Cultural. Africa. Nobel Prize. Novels

A Sport of Nature Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

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A Sport of Nature is a fictional history of the end of Apartheid . It is the story of a white Jewish privileged girl who is abandoned by her parents and brought up by her aunts. She doesn't fit in with her her up tight Aunt Olga or her liberal do gooder ,Aunt, Pauline.
At about age 16 or 17 Hillela is discovered in her cousin's bed. From this point, she uproots herself totally from her family and becomes "The Sport of Nature," a spontaneous mutation.
It is the 60's,70's even the 80's Hillella is true to herself. She finds comfort and gives comfort to the people she meets. Both men and women find her bright , charming, innocent and wise. Though she accepts aid from many, I can't think of a character who admits to feeling used. She is tremendously loyal to her friends and lovers, though sexual fidelity is not a concept to her.
The novel starts in South Africa and travels through many emerging countries in Africa, England and the U.S. The reader is taken through the unimproved homes of black Africans and the luxurious suites and manor like homes of the ambassadors, the affluent whites and the affluent blacks. Hillella, a high school drop out, manages to be integrally involved in Ivy League College lecturing,the inner sanctum in the revolution of South Africa and a mother. I think she might be the muse for Sheryl Sandberg's book Lean In. This is not an easy or quick read. Nadine Gordimer Is always insightful and challenging.

Mention Books To A Sport of Nature

Original Title:	A Sport of Nature
ISBN:	0140103295 (ISBN13: 9780140103298)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1988)

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Excellent writing and a compelling story. The heroine lives on the edge, continually breaking the apartheid barriers as well as other manifestations of cultural tradition. Her story ends up as the story of a white woman who finds her way to the very center of the national liberation movement in southern Africa. I recommend it for your reading pleasure and for your historical and spiritual illumination.

Politically and psychologically complex. Also, intellectually challenging. The writing style could be difficult for someone (like me) whose native language is not English, but it is so worth the effort.

I lied. I didnt read it. I tried but found it so tedious.

I learned a lot about African history, and more importantly, I learned that I have a lot to learn. I wonder if Gordimer would write it differently in light of the politics of the past 20 years.And Gordimer's treatment of Hillela is intesting. I like the way we know what people think of her, but we rarely know what she thinks of anyone or anything.

While still a secondary school student, Kim Capran decides to rename herself "Hillela". Hillela joins the ANC, she marries a black man from the congress and has a child with him.[1][2] She travels to Dar es Salaam, Nairobi before returning to South Africa as one of the wives of a fictitious first President of South Africa.

Gordimer is as always searchingly trenchant in exploring shades of political motivation, culture, self-delusion, heroic daily sacrifice of the mundane kind. The life of black and white South African freedom fighters in exile; nuances of relationships. But main character, Hillela, struck me as not believable.

This book was pretty excellent, even though I didn't really like the main character all that much. I had a really hard time really sympathizing with a woman who was, essentially, defined by the men she slept with or, in the case of Leonie, with the stronger women she associated with. Her final role as the wife of a revolutionary president was exemplary of this - she was defined by her role as wife to someone impressive, not as someone impressive in and of herself. I also got a bit annoyed with