text: In this novel, the only book that a woman takes on a trip is The Betrothed, but she never reads it.
full_question: In this novel, the only book that a woman takes on a trip is The Betrothed, but she never reads it. A character in this novel wakes up with what he thinks is pig’s blood on his penis before realizing that it’s his wife’s menstrual blood. Two servants in this novel are called “Our Jim” and “My Jim.” A chief in this novel reveals he knows English when he speaks to Maureen, who later chases after a helicopter at its end. The white Smales flee a war-torn Johannesburg to live with the title character in, for 10 points, what Nadine Gordimer novel that shares part of its name with a summer month?
first_sentence: In this novel, the only book that a woman takes on a trip is The Betrothed, but she never reads it.