Table of Contents:
  • The rise of a writer: "Falling, falling through the surface"
  • Where do whites fit in? The lying days, A world of strangers, and Occasion for loving
  • The novel and the nation: The late bourgeois world, A guest of honour, and The conservationist
  • Living in the interregnum: Burger's daughter and July's people
  • Apprentices of freedom: A sport of nature, My son's story, and None to accompany me
  • The future is another country: The house gun.