Burger’s Daughter.

GORDIMER, Nadine [V.S. Naipaul].

$3,000.00

Item Number: 138017

London: Jonathan Cape, 1979.

First edition of this powerful novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author, from the library of fellow Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul, with his signature to the front free endpaper. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional association linking to of the greatest post World War II authors.

Burger's Daughter details a group of white anti-apartheid activists in South Africa seeking to overthrow the South African government. It is set in the mid-1970s, and follows the life of Rosa, the title character, as she comes to terms with her father Lionel Burger's legacy as an activist in the South African Communist Party. While banned in South Africa, a copy of the book was smuggled into Mandela's prison cell on Robben Island, and he reported that he "thought well of it".