A Sport of Nature is a 1987 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer.
Plot While still a secondary school student, Kim Capran decides to rename herself "Hillela". She joins the ANC, marries a black man from the congress, and has a child with him. She travels to Dar es Salaam and Nairobi before returning to South Africa in the final pages as the wife of a fictitious president of Kenya.
Reception In Gordimer's Nobel Prize citation, A Sport of Nature was described as "[her] most hazardous undertaking."
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