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Nadine Gordimer · 2005 CE · Novel · South African · Contemporary

Paul Bannerman, an ecologist, is made radioactive by treatment for thyroid cancer and must live apart from his young child and wife in his parents' house. The enforced isolation sets his private body against the causes he has worked for. A late novel by Gordimer, written in her eighties.

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