Burger's Daughter

““There was no indication of what impression she wanted to make, this girl; but that was, in fact, the impression he had formed the few times, since she was an adolescent, he had encountered her and even from photographs in the papers: she was either so vulnerably open that her presence in the world made an impossible claim, or so inviolable that her openness was an arrogant assumption - which amounted to the same thing. She didn’t understand the shame of the need to please, as royalty never carries money.””

“Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer’s historical and political portrait of an anti-apartheid family’s legacy in South Africa”