Sport of Nature

<b>A moving powerful book that in a career rich with distinguished works could well be considered her masterpiece.<b>--</b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b> <p/>Hillela is Nadine Gordimer's sport of nature a spontaneous mutation a new type of untainted person she is seductive and intuitively gifted for life. <i>A Sport of Nature </i>is the bold sweeping story of her rise from obscurity to an unpredictable kind of political power. <p/>Abandoned by her mother Hillela is left to be raised by her two aunts in South Africa. At Olga's she might have acquired a taste for antiques and a style of dress to please a suitable husband. At Pauline's she might have developed a social conscience. But Hillela's betrayal of her position as a surrogate daughter so shocks both families that at seventeen she is cast adrift. <p/>Swiftly and perilously her life opens out. She lives as a footloose girl among political exiles on a beach in East Africa drifting between jobs and lovers and finally becomes the wife of a black revolutionary. Personal tragedy is ultimately the catalyst for her political development leading her into a heroic role in the overthrow of apartheid. <p/>This is the largest most reverberant work of fiction we have had yet from one of the world's master novelists.