A Guest of Honour is a 1970 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer. A Guest of Honour explores the role of revolutionary ideas in new African states.[1]
Critical reception
The New York Times reviewer Thomas Fisk called the novel "a long, spacious, comprehensive work of fiction" which has "something Olympian, something magnificently confident [about how] this South African writer goes about her work."[1] Fisk's review focuses on the stylistic qualities of the novel, calling the characters "exceedingly human: complicated, erring, driven by fleshy appetites and by the loftiest resolves" and discussing the setting as a "landscape so tactile and so sensuous that it becomes a participant in everything that occurs".[1]
Fido, Elaine (1 April 1978). "A guest of honour: A feminine view of masculinity". World Literature Written in English. 17 (1): 30–37. doi:10.1080/17449857808588500. ISSN0093-1705.
Donge, Jan Kees van (1 October 1982). "Nadine Gordimer's "A Guest of Honour": A Failure to Understand Zambian Society". Journal of Southern African Studies. 9 (1): 74–92. doi:10.1080/03057078208708051. JSTOR2636733.
