num_pages: 368
description: The acclaimed South African novelist's first collection of nonfiction work presents twenty-three intimate views of South African life and politics during the past forty years and of the development of Gordimer's thought and art
language: English
title: The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places
titlecomplete: The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places
genres: Essays, Africa, Nonfiction, South Africa
ratings_count: 63
publisher: Penguin Books