Burger’s Daughter (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Nadine Gordimer
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1962-1977
- Setting: Johannesburg, South Africa; Nice, France; and London
- Principal Characters: Rosemarie (Rosa) Burger, Lionel burger, Katya Bagnelli, Bernard Chabalier, Baasie Vulindlela, Conrad, Orde Greer, Dick, Marisa Kgosana
- 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
Form and Content
Burger’s Daughter is divided into three parts. The first part begins in South Africa in 1962 when Rosa Burger is fourteen years old and takes her through her father’s imprisonment for communist activities and the death of both parents, her brief affair with the nomad Conrad, her education and work as a physiotherapist, her turning away from a life dedicated to the Communist Party, and her departure for Europe in 1975. Part 2 tells the story of Rosa’s year in Nice, France, with Katya Bagnelli, her father’s first wife, and Katya’s bohemian...
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