{"product_id":"a-sport-of-nature","title":"A Sport of Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A moving, powerful book that, in a career rich with distinguished works, could well be considered her masterpiece.\"—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHillela is Nadine Gordimer's \"sport of nature\": a spontaneous mutation, a new type of untainted person, she is seductive and intuitively gifted for life. A Sport of Nature is the bold, sweeping story of her rise from obscurity to an unpredictable kind of political power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbandoned by her mother, Hillela is left to be raised by her two aunts in South Africa. At Olga's she might have acquired a taste for antiques and a style of dress to please a suitable husband. At Pauline's she might have developed a social conscience. But Hillela's betrayal of her position as a surrogate daughter so shocks both families that at seventeen she is cast adrift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwiftly and perilously, her life opens out. She lives as a footloose girl among political exiles on a beach in East Africa, drifting between jobs and lovers, and finally becomes the wife of a black revolutionary. Personal tragedy is ultimately the catalyst for her political development, leading her into a heroic role in the overthrow of apartheid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the largest, most reverberant work of fiction we have had yet from one of the world's master novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67224668962861,"sku":"9780140084702","price":7.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0374\/0001\/8989\/files\/FullSizeRender_2f685294-cfc3-4929-9b01-847700c014c0.heic?v=1785998036","url":"https:\/\/shop.redflag.org.au\/products\/a-sport-of-nature","provider":"Red Flag Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}