Burgers Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
Burgers Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
List: $22.95 | Sale: $16.07
Club: $11.47

Burger's Daughter

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Unabridged: 12 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/24/2015

Synopsis

In Burger's Daughter, Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer uses a coming-of-age story to explore the complicated political circumstances of modern South Africa.Rosa Burger is a white South African woman in her early twenties trying to uphold the political heritage handed on by her martyred parents while carving out a sense of self. Cast in the revolutionary mold, the only survivor of a family known for their anti-apartheid beliefs and practices, Rosa is under the watch of the government and the rebels alike, all of whom seem to have great expectations of her. A quiet, private person, Rosa herself is more concerned with introspection and with trying to understand her identity and her political climate in her own way. Through her journey, the journey of a nation comes to light.

About Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) was born in South Africa. She received numerous international prizes for her writing, including the Modern Language Association Award, the Bennett Award, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She was given honorary degrees by Yale, Harvard, and other universities and was honored by the French government with the decoration Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

About Wanda McCaddon

Wanda McCaddon (d. 2023) narrated well over six hundred titles for major audiobook publishers, sometimes with the pseudonym Nadia May or Donada Peters. She earned the prestigious Audio Award for best narration and numerous Earphones Awards. She was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by E on November 22, 2011

I wanted to enjoy this so much more than I did. A story nearly strangled by apartheid written by an author with an indisputable knack for conveying tension in its many forms showed so much promise. But the stream of consciousness had me reading in circles. Even the dialogue became tedious as irregul......more

Goodreads review by Kiran on April 05, 2023

Burger's Daughter is an authentic portrait of life during Apartheid South Africa, written from the perspective of the daughter of a White, Afrikaner freedom fighter, named Rosa Burger. Her heritage makes her an outcast in White society in South Africa, while her skin color means she can never be ful......more

Goodreads review by Tamara on November 28, 2020

A young school girl waits outside a prison in South Africa. This scene opens Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer, the 1991 Nobel Prize winner in literature. The girl clutches a hot-water bottle and an eiderdown to be delivered to her mother inside the prison. The girl’s name is Rosa Burger, the dau......more

Goodreads review by Gisela on March 16, 2016

Nadine Gordimer is one of my favourite writers, as she manages to describe and explain difficult issues and situations not only around the apartheid struggle in South Africa, but also the difficulty of life in the country for South Africans sympathetic or active in the struggle. Her books are very p......more

Quotes

“This is a novel of social and political import which is also an intensely subjective prose poem, mesmerizing in the subtle cadences of its language.” Joyce Carol Oates

“Gordimer’s most political and most moving novel, going to the heart of the racial conflict in South Africa. But it does not deal publicly with riots, tortures, or crusades: Its politics come out of its characters, as part of the wholeness of lives that cannot evade them.” New York Times

“A riveting history of South Africa and a penetrating portrait of a courageous woman.” New Yorker

“Nadine Gordimer is a great writer…Turgenev she most brings to mind.” New York Review of Books

“Faultless novelistic art…only equaled in our time by such masters as Graham Greene and V. S. Naipaul.” Francine du Plessix Gray, Pulitzer Prize–nominated writer and literary critic

“Take time to read this novel…Nobel Prize–winner Nadine Gordimer takes a situation most read about in newspapers and makes it real, creating a memorable story of coming to terms with circumstances over which we have little control, yet which directly affect our lives.” Holly Smith, 500 Great Books by Women

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List