HOUSE GUN

With the scaffolding of a courtroom drama and the moral underpinnings of the state''s responsibility the novel infuses an isolated crime of passion with the atmospheric pressure of a country reeling from its own past. --The Boston Sunday GlobeA house gun like a house cat: a fact of ordinary daily life. How else can you defend yourself against intruders and thieves in post-apartheid South Africa? The respected executive director of an insurance company Harald and his doctor wife Claudia are faced with something that could never happen to them: Their son Duncan has murdered a man. In this powerful and disturbing anatomy of a murder Nadine Gordimer examines the effect of violence on the complicated web of love that holds together parents and children friends and lovers.