Gordimer's first book was The Soft Voice of the Serpent (1952), a collection of short stories. In 1953 a novel, The Lying Days, was published. Both exhibit the clear, controlled, and unsentimental technique that became her hallmark. Her stories concern the devastating effects of apartheid on the lives of South Africans--the constant tension between personal isolation and the commitment to social justice, the numbness caused by the unwillingness to accept apartheid, the inability to change it, and the refusal of exile. Her novel The Conservationist (1974) won the Booker McConnell Prize in 1974. Later works include Burger's Daughter (1979), the short-story collection A Soldier's Embrace (1980), July's People (1981), and A Sport of Nature (1987).
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