 First edition cover (RSA) | |
| Author | Nadine Gordimer |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Alternate history |
| Publisher | Ravan/Taurus (RSA) Jonathan Cape (UK) Viking Press (US) |
Publication date | 1981 |
| Publication place | South Africa |
Published in English | 1981 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 195 |
| ISBN | 9780747578383 |
July's People is a 1981 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. It is set in a near-future version of South Africa where apartheid is ended through a civil war.[1] Unlike Gordimer's earlier work, the novel was ignored by the apartheid government's censor, though the book's South African publisher was later raided by the Security Police.[2]
- ^ Erritouni, Ali (Winter 2006). "Apartheid Inequality and Postapartheid Utopia in Nadine Gordimer's "July's People"". Research in African Literatures. 37 (4): 68–84.
- ^ "For Ravan the police campaign took an extreme turn in 1987....In March that year its offices were firebombed, a few days after 'thieves' broke into the premises, stealing a significant amount of money and pointedly spray-painting slogans on the walls of the offices, saying 'Raven [sic] Communist Pigs' and 'We come back'." Peter D. McDonald, The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009), 154.