num_pages: 304
description: A Nobel laureate tells the powerful story of Duncan, a South-African man who shoots and kills a good friend he finds in bed with his woman and then puts his future in the hands of his parents and a black defense lawyer. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The House Gun
titlecomplete: The House Gun
genres: Fiction, African Literature, South Africa, Crime, Literature, Novels, Nobel Prize, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 1417
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Penguin Group USA