by Nadine Gordimer · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466303675
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«Un arma en casa» is the novel by Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize for Literature 1991, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (502 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the Lingords, a liberal South African couple whose life falls apart when their son Duncan kills a flatmate. Duncan confesses to the crime but does not reveal his motives; his parents entrust the defence to a black lawyer recently returned from exile, a risky choice in a South Africa where equality is only formal.
Work originally published in English as «The House Gun» in 1997; nominated for the Orange Prize in 1998. The Spanish edition appeared in 2001.
For readers of literary fiction interested in post-apartheid South Africa and the work of Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize for Literature 1991.
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".
