Description
In the shadow of South Africa’s apartheid struggle, Rosa Burger grows up inside a family defined by resistance—until her father is detained and dies, leaving her to navigate grief, loyalty, and the expectations of a cause that has consumed her parents’ lives. As she tries to piece together who she is beyond their activism, Rosa confronts the emotional collateral damage of political commitment: love, betrayal, and the uneasy inheritance of a public mission. Nadine Gordimer’s incisive, intimate style turns Rosa’s inner life into a lens on larger questions of identity, responsibility, and what it means to keep fighting when the people who taught you how are gone. With its blend of personal reckoning and social urgency, this novel captures the human cost of revolution—especially for those who must carry it forward.
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paperback
Viking Press
Published Jan 1, 1979
361 pages
ISBN: 0670194751
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First Published
1979
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer.