JULY'S PEOPLE
by Nadine Gordimer
Viking; 160 pages; $10.95
This terse novel is set in a future that may be inevitable. Author Nadine Gordimer, 57, imagines a time when the blacks of her native South Africa finally move in force against the ruling white minority. The cities go up in flames, the airports and other routes of escape are cut off. People who probably did not belong in the country in the first place now find that they cannot get out at all.
Among them are Bamford and Maureen Smales, a liberal Johannesburg couple with...
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