| A Sport of Nature | |
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1st edition (South Africa) |
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| Author(s) | Nadine Gordimer |
| Country | South Africa |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | David Phillip (SA) Jonathan Cape (UK) Knopf (US) |
| Publication date | 1987 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
A Sport of Nature is a 1987 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer.
While still a secondary school student, Kim Capran decides to re-name herself "Hillela". Hillela joins the ANC, she marries a black man from the congress and has a child with him.[1].[2] She travels to Dar es Salaam, Nairobi before returning to South Africa as one of the wives of a fictitious first President of South Africa.[2]
In Gordimer's Nobel Prize citation, "A Sport of Nature" was described as "her most hazardous undertaking."[3]
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