Books: Double Life in Africa

A WORLD OF STRANGERS (312 pp.)— Nadine Gordimer—Simon & Schuster ($3.95).

Author Nadine Gordimer must be one of the heaviest crosses white South Africans have to bear. She not only tells the truth about her countrymen, but she tells it so well that she has become at once their goad and their best writer. In two books of short stones and a novel, The Lying Days (TIME, Oct. 12, 1953), she had already revealed so much of white hypocrisy and black frustration that her work might have seemed finished. Now, at 34, she proves in an excellent new novel that the faces...

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