''A World of Strangers'' is a 1958 novel by South African novelist and Nobel Laureate

Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer (20 November 192313 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writin ...

. The novel included mixed reviews, drawing criticism for its pedantic explanation of Gordimer's worldview. The novel was banned in South Africa for 12 years. The novel's main plot focuses on depicting the divisions and boundaries that Apartheid and international capitalism create within South African society. The novel thematically focuses on liberalism in South Africa and in the international community.

Adaptation

In 1962, a Danish film adaptation of the novel was released under the title ''Dilemma'' by Danish film director,

Henning Carlsen Henning Carlsen (4 June 1927 – 30 May 2014) was a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer most noted for his documentaries and his contributions to the style of cinéma vérité. Carlsen's 1966 social-realistic drama ''Hunger'' (''Sul ...

, and starring Ivan Jackson, Evelyn Frank, and Marijke Mann. The film won the Grand prize at the 1962 Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival.IFFMH (International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg) 1962
/ref> In the U.K. this film was released under the title ''A World of Strangers'' due to an unrelated U.K. crime thriller being released in the same year under the same name.

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