Burger’s Daughter | Burger’s Daughter

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Author: Nadine Gordimer
First Published: 1979
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Psychological realism
Time of Work: 1962-1977
Setting: Johannesburg, South Africa, and Nice, France
Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism, Political fiction
Subjects: Social action, 1960’s, 1970’s, Family or family life, Self-discovery, Africa or Africans, Parents and children, Communism or communists, Politics, Revolutionaries, Race, Revolutions, Social issues, Fathers, Adultery, Ethics, South Africa or South Africans, Martyrs or martyrdom, Apartheid
Locales: Johannesburg, South Africa, Nice, France

Rosemarie (Rosa) Burger, the daughter of white South African Communists, now seeking her own identity. Rosa is a complex, serious young woman who was reared in a household dedicated to the struggle against apartheid. Both of her parents were imprisoned at various times throughout her childhood, and their deaths have now left her emotionally at sea, uncertain whether her identity as “Lionel Burger’s daughter” is one she wants or is able to live up to. The book’s story is that of her slow journey toward self- knowledge and self-acceptance.

Burger’s Daughter | Burger’s Daughter

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