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Steve is half-Jewish, half-Christian. His wife Jabulile is Zulu. Veterans of the ANC, they married at a time when racial laws forbade them to do so. Here they are in Johannesburg, in post-apartheid South Africa. How can they lead a normal life after so many years of fighting and hiding?

Since 1991, the promise of a better life for all has been slow to materialize and social inequalities have replaced the old racial segregation. Nadine Gordimer offers us a fascinating novel about what it means to be South African today.