This novel is prefaced by a quote from Gramsci stating that in the "interregnum [between the old and the new] there arises a great diversity of morbid systems." The protagonist recalls that the only book she owns is a copy of
This novel is prefaced by a quote from Gramsci stating that in the "interregnum [between the old and the new] there arises a great diversity of morbid systems." The protagonist recalls that the only book she owns is a copy of Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi while the title character is fetching clothes to be washed. After Royce is caught wiping his behind with a stone, that title character is found missing. In addition to the truck driven away by the title character, Bamford's gun is eventually stolen, possibly by Daniel so he can fight in the revolution in Johannesburg. Maureen Smales leaves behind her husband and children at the end of, FTP, what novel by Nadine Gordimer named for the Smales' servant?
This novel is prefaced by a quote from Gramsci stating that in the "interregnum [between the old and the new] there arises a great diversity of morbid systems.
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