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The text includes multiple quoted reviews highlighting the novel’s emotional tension, precise depiction of private and public life, and imaginative integration of personal pain with political events. It then presents thematic front matter such as a glossary definition for “Lusus naturae—Sport of nature,” a contents list of chapter titles, and an opening chapter scene centered on Hillela/Kim, her shifting identity, and her interactions in a Rhodesian/South Africa context.",{"@graph":69,"@context":123},[70,84,106],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":10,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/story-novel/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/a-sport-of-nature/326771/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/a-sport-of-nature/326771.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Theodore","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-11-04","2026-09-21",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":105},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",14,{"@type":107,"mainEntity":108},"FAQPage",[109,115,119],{"name":110,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":112},"What do the review excerpts emphasize about the novel?","Question",{"text":113,"@type":114},"They emphasize emotional tension, cumulative subtle prose, and an accurate exposure of the complicated nervous system of the country, integrating private and public experience.","Answer",{"name":116,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":117},"What does “Lusus naturae—Sport of nature” mean in the provided text?",{"text":118,"@type":114},"It refers to a plant or animal that exhibits abnormal variation or departure from the parent stock, including spontaneous mutation and a new variety produced in this way.",{"name":120,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":121},"Who is the protagonist referred to as Hillela and Kim in the excerpt?",{"text":122,"@type":114},"The excerpt describes a girl whose identity shifts through names, focusing on her being called by her second name Kim as the years pass, alongside her background and relationships.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":125,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":127,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":129,"site_id":62},326771,1790822708,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":132},{"doc_id":129,"user_id":133,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":134,"doc_module":4,"category_id":8,"category_name":10,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":135,"file_id":136,"file_url":137,"file_type":138,"file_size":139,"view_count":105,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":140,"language":141,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":142,"faqs":143,"seo_title":144,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":145,"read_time":146},7971461740886,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_3d24733baf745e90a7e4bdd5f77d97b2","Praise for A Sport ofNature  \n‘Gordimer writes …with a relish that is sometimes wicked and an authority that seems absolute.’  \n—The New Yorker  \n‘There is an emotional tension in the prose that is cumulative and subtle. The novel gathers force like a slow-moving avalanche of words, breaking from time to time into italicized passages close to prose poems. With Hillela, Nadine Gordimer continues to bear testimony that writing can matter as much as skin and hair.’  \n—Washington Post Book World  \n‘A Sport ofNature is a valiant, beautifully rendered attempt to do justice, its heart unbowed by the enormity of its burden.’  \n—The Boston Globe  \n‘What is riveting in this novel is the people themselves, the moments, the situations. The triumph of ASport ofNature is not so much Hillela ’s triumph as the exquisite accuracy with which Gordimer has, once again, exposed the complicated nervous system of her country.’  \n—Lynn Freed, San Francisco Chronicle  \n‘Fine, incisive …Wraps moral and political struggle in elegantly spun incident and luminous prose.…Gordimer distills political events into personal pain, and the pain depicted here …resonates.’  \n—Kirkus Reviews  \n‘Achieves a remarkable imaginative integration of private and public experience.… A brilliant, engrossing novel ’  \n—Library Journal  \nFor Oriane and Hugo  \nLusus naturae—Sport ofnature.  \nA plant, animal, etc., which exhibits abnormal variation or a departure from the parent stock or type …a spontaneous mutation; a new variety produced in this way.  \n—Oxford English Dictionary  \nContents  \nA Suncrush for My Sweetheart  \nDon’t Lean Your Smelly Arm Over My Face  \nGo-Go Dancer  \nThe Shadow of a Palm Tree  \nOpportunities  \nTime Off for a Love-Letter  \nIntelligence  \nTrust Her!  \nThe Diplomatic Bag  \nCredentials  \nA Perfect Circle of Sand  \nCasualties  \nUnder The Snow  \nSpecial Interests  \nHousewarming  \nA Face for a Postage Stamp  \nLiberated Territory  \nState Houses  \nWhaila ’s Country  \nA Note on the Author  \nBy the Same Author  \nA Suncrush for My Sweetheart  \nSomewhere along the journey the girl shed one name and emerged under the other. As she chewed gum and let slide by the conveyer belt of balancing rocks, the wayside halts where black children waved, the grazing buck sloping away to the horizon in a blast of fear set in motion by the passing train, she threw Kim up to the rack with her school panama and took on Hillela. The brown stockings collapsed down her legs, making fine hairs prickle pleasurably. She would dig sandals and a dress out of her suitcase and change without concern for the presence of other women in the compartment. She was going, each time, to her aunt, one of her mother ’s sisters, in whose home she was given every advantage. She was coming from the Rhodesian girls ’ school to which, she would say when asked why she didn’t go to school in South Africa, she was sent because her father had grown up in Salisbury. She was not the only child whose parents were divorced or parted or whatever it was they were. But she was the only Hillela among Susans and Clares and Fionas. What sort of a name was that? Didn’t know, couldn’t tell them. What she did tell them, without a moment’s hesitation, was that anyway she was always called by her second name, Kim. As the years passed, not even her teachers called her anything but Kim. Noone remarked when she went with the other Kims, Susans, Clares and Fionas to the Anglican Church on Sundays, although in her school record ‘religious faith’ was filled in as Jewish.  \nOlga met her at the station. Later, it was at the airport; Olga must have told her father it was ridiculous to subject her to that two-day hot and tedious train trip. Or maybe Olga paid for the airticket; she was generous: she would say, never to the child herself but to company while she ruffled the child’s fringe or put an arm round her—Oh this ’s the little daughter I didn’t have.—  \nThe room was made ready with a rose in the summer holidays and in winter fre","cbCailV8OFqq7IFo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailV8OFqq7IFo","pdf",1953634,241,"English","# Contents\n## A Suncrush for My Sweetheart\n## Don’t Lean Your Smelly Arm Over My Face\n## Go-Go Dancer\n## The Shadow of a Palm Tree\n## Opportunities\n## Time Off for a Love-Letter\n## Intelligence\n## Trust Her!\n## The Diplomatic Bag\n## Credentials\n## A Perfect Circle of Sand\n## Casualties\n## Under The Snow\n## Special Interests\n## Housewarming\n## A Face for a Postage Stamp\n## Liberated Territory\n## State Houses\n## Whaila ’s Country\n## A Note on the Author\n## By the Same Author","[{\"question\":\"What do the review excerpts emphasize about the novel?\",\"answer\":\"They emphasize emotional tension, cumulative subtle prose, and an accurate exposure of the complicated nervous system of the country, integrating private and public experience.\"},{\"question\":\"What does “Lusus naturae—Sport of nature” mean in the provided text?\",\"answer\":\"It refers to a plant or animal that exhibits abnormal variation or departure from the parent stock, including spontaneous mutation and a new variety produced in this way.\"},{\"question\":\"Who is the protagonist referred to as Hillela and Kim in the excerpt?\",\"answer\":\"The excerpt describes a girl whose identity shifts through names, focusing on her being called by her second name Kim as the years pass, alongside her background and relationships.\"}]","A Sport of Nature | PDF",1789975306,371]