num_pages: 501
description: James Bray, an English colonial administrator who was expelled from a central African nation for siding with its black nationalist leaders, is invited back ten years later to join in the country's independence celebrations. As he witnesses the factionalism and violence that erupt as revolutionary ideals are subverted by ambition and greed, Bray is once again forced to choose sides, a choice that becomes both his triumph and his undoing.
language: English
title: A Guest of Honour
titlecomplete: A Guest of Honour
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, South Africa, Politics, Africa, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 172
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC