A Guest of Honour (novel) explained

A Guest of Honour
Author:	Nadine Gordimer
Country:	South Africa
Language:	English
Genre:	Fiction
Publisher:	Viking Press
Release Date:	October 22, 1970
Media Type:	Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages:	504
Isbn:	9780670356546

A Guest of Honour is a 1970 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer. A Guest of Honour explores the role of revolutionary ideas in new African states.^[1]

Critical reception

The New York Times reviewer Thomas Fisk called the novel "a long, spacious, comprehensive work of fiction" which has "something Olympian, something magnificently confident [about how] this South African writer goes about her work." Fisk's review focuses on the stylistic qualities of the novel, calling the characters "exceedingly human: complicated, erring, driven by fleshy appetites and by the loftiest resolves" and discussing the setting as a "landscape so tactile and so sensuous that it becomes a participant in everything that occurs".

Further reading

• A guest of honour: A feminine view of masculinity. World Literature Written in English. 1978-04-01. 0093-1705. 30–37. 17. 1. 10.1080/17449857808588500. Elaine. Fido.
• Nadine Gordimer's "A Guest of Honour": A Failure to Understand Zambian Society. 2636733. Journal of Southern African Studies. 1982-10-01. 74–92. 9. 1. Jan Kees van. Donge. 10.1080/03057078208708051.
• The Liberal Tradition in South African Literature: Still a Curse? Nadine Gordimer's A Guest of Honour Revisited. International Fiction Review. 2006-01-01. 1911-186X. 33. 1. Ode S.. Ogede.

Notes and References

1. News: 'A Guest of Honor'. The New York Times. 1970-10-30. 2015-11-04. 0362-4331. Thomas. Lask. 30 October 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151030100433/http://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/30/books/gordimer-honor.html. live.