<DIV>When Will skips school to slip off to a movie theater near Johannesburg, he is shocked to see his father. An ordinary mishap, but his father is no ordinary man. He is a "colored" and revered anti-apartheid hero, and his female companion is a white activist fiercely dedicated to the cause. As Will struggles with confusion and bitterness, <I>My Son's Story</I> unravels the consequences of one man's infidelity as a new South Africa violently emerges from the apartheid.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>"Captures with convincing detail the ecstatic rewards and terrifying costs of revolutionary politics...Delineates with unblinking candor the collision of public and private experience that takes place on a daily basis in South Africa...A fiercely intelligent novel -- one of her most powerful yet." —Michiko Kakutani, <I>The New York Times</I></DIV><P>"Gordimer has taken South Africa's tragedy and laid the truth of it in our laps. The story she tell sis lucid and achingly alive."—<I>The Boston Sunday Globe</I></P><P>"Beautifully <I>felt</I>, both in its anger and its compassion...It is so rich as to make praise superfluous, so vital and disturbing as to send us...back into the world with a heightened sense of what life in it might mean."—<I>USA Today</I></P>