num_pages: 294
description: How else can you defend yourself against losing your hi-fi equipment, your tv set and computer, your watch and rings a house gun, like a house cat; that is a fact of ordinary life in many cities of the world as we come to the end of the twentieth century, especially in south africa at this time the successful, respected executive director of an insurance company, harold, and his doctor wife, claudia, for whom violence could never be a means of solving personal conflict, are faced with something that could never happen to their son has committed murder what kind of loyalty do a mother and a father owe a son who has committed this unimaginable horror what have they done, in influencing his character; more ominously, where is it they have failed him the house gun is a passionate narrative of love being particularly complex between parents and their children it moves with the restless pace of living itself, from the intimate to the general condition; if it is a parable of present violence, it is also an affirmation of the will to human reconciliation that starts where it must, between individuals
language: English
title: The House Gun
titlecomplete: The House Gun
genres: Nobel Prize, South Africa, African Literature, Novels, Africa, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 1417
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Bloomsbury