num_pages: 384
description: Nadine Gordimer's first novel, published in 1953, tells the story of Helen Shaw, daughter of white middle-class parents in a small gold-mining town in South Africa. As Helen comes of age, so does her awareness grow of the African life around her. Her involvement, as a bohemian student, with young blacks leads her into complex relationships of emotion and action in a culture of dissension.
language: English
title: The Lying Days
titlecomplete: The Lying Days
genres: South Africa, Novels, Africa, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 222
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing