A Sport of Nature
Hillela is expelled from boarding school, passed between two aunts who cannot place her, and thereafter goes where her appetites take her: exile households in Tanzania and Ghana, marriages to revolutionaries, the diplomatic circuits of the liberation movements. She holds no politics, only a total absence of the colour instinct she was raised with. Gordimer called the type a freak of nature and gave her the history the principled could not carry.
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