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Gordimer has never had a large reading audience inside South Africa. South Africans have been dissatisfied with her work or they have been kept from it through censorship. Internationally, however, Gordimer has been the interpreter of South Africa through her short stories and novels. July's People was hardly different in this respect, but it is often treated not as a novel but as prophecy.
Soon after its publication Anne Tyler praised the novel in the New York Times Book Review. She compared the story to...
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