A World of Strangers (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Nadine Gordimer
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: The early 1950’s
- Setting: Johannesburg, South Africa
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: 1950’s, Self-discovery, Politics, Racism, Blacks, Death or dying, South Africa or South Africans, Hate crimes, Apartheid
- Locales: South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
Characters Discussed
Tobias (Toby) Hood, a publisher’s agent. He has come from London to Johannesburg, South Africa, to work for a time in his family’s publishing firm, Aden Parrot. Brown-haired and stocky, the Oxford-educated, twenty-six-year-old Toby is the first-person narrator of the novel. At odds with the liberal politics of his family, Toby comes to South Africa determined to see and do what interests him and not to be guided by social conscience. Through Hamish and Marion Alexander, he meets a group of privileged and luxury-loving white South Africans, including...
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