Critical Praise

"The House Gun ... is a tense post-apartheid family drama as vital as anything [Gordimer] has ever written. "

——Time magazine

"Elegantly conceived, flawlessly executed... Gordimer tells a love story unlike any other I have ever read. "

——— Jack Miles, The New York Times Book Review

"A memorable blend of the topical and the timeless, at once a profound, lingering meditation on the human heart and a story so gripping you can scarcely bear to put it down. "

——San Francisco Chronicle

"With the scaffolding of a courtroom drama and the moral underpinnings of the state's responsibility, the novel infuses an isolated crime of passion with the atmospheric pressure of a country reeling from its own past. "

——The Boston Sunday Globe