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In South Africa, Nadine Gordimer's The Lying Days is a coming-of-age novel. It is where characters of Gordimer come to existence and find out the sector around them. The tale is told with many nuanced strokes, and every minute thought is picked over. All threads of emotions are freed to depart every negation clear. The unconventional does deliver out rather magnificently, Gordimer's impressive sensing into the remarkable moments of numerous human interactions. The entire novel is subtly political, where the novelist exposes the horrors of apartheid. It is visible that the racial superstructure presents a simple contradiction to the concept of liberalism. The apartheid nation becomes capable of keeping the Black population in its grip. The whole work concentrates on the effect of apartheid on the lives of all South Africans. The novelist intimately diagnoses the Black conflict even in her personal existence. Her writing unveils preconceptions, tensions, traces of lifestyles and vitriolic results of the existing apartheid system. Regardless of several flaws and ambiguities in its motive, the radical nonetheless come s out as a cultured and ideological declaration. This article not only establishes Gordimer as a South African novelist, who delves deep into the politics of Black and White but how the novelist expresses her sense of belonging through personal exploration.