1963, American hardcover edition, Viking, NY. 308 pages, novel. 3rd novel by this talented South African author. A young wife in Johannesburg falls in love with an African artist. This is an intense story about taboos and racial conflict. "She is an ...
Hardcover with DJ. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear and fixed to inside covers. Front end paper is torn out....
James Bray, an English colonial administrator who was expelled from a central African nation for siding with its black nationalist leaders, is invited back ten years later to join in the country's independence celebrations. As he witnesses the factio...
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewarsship...
This is the moving story of the unforgettable Rosa Burger, a young woman from South Africa cast in the mold of a revolutionary tradition. Rosa tries to uphold her heritage handed on by martyred parents while still carving out a sense of self. Althoug...
A startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
For years, it had been what is called a “deteriorating situation.” Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family -- ...
This novel is about Hellela, a Jewish South African girl abandoned by her parents. Stretching from the turbulent 1960s this book goes from the beaches of West Africa to the slums of London, and from Washington to the presidential palace of an African...
Will, the narrator of this powerfully charged novel, discovers that his father, a political activist and local hero in their South African town, has become involved with a white woman. Wrenching, passionate, deeply resonant, My Son's Story evokes the...
The stories in Nadine Gordimer's collection of short fiction take us to places as far apart as suburban London, Mozambique, a mythical island and South Africa. Together they form a portrait of life as it lived now, at the end of the 20th century....
In an extraordinary period immediately before the first non-racial election and the beginning of majority rule in South Africa, Vera Stark, the protagonist of Nadine Gordimer's passionate novel, weaves a ruthless interpretation of her own past int...
"With the scaffolding of a courtroom drama and the moral underpinnings of the state's responsibility, the novel infuses an isolated crime of passion with the atmospheric pressure of a country reeling from its own past." --The Boston Sunday Globe
When Julie Summers' car breaks down in a sleazy street, a young Arab mechanic comes to her rescue. Out of this meeting develops a friendship that turns to love. But soon, despite his attempts to make the most of Julie's wealthy connections, Abdu is d...
Toby Hood, a young Englishman, shuns the politics and the causes his liberal parents passionately support. Living in Johannesburg as a representative of his family's publishing company, Toby moves easily, carelessly, between the complacent wealthy wh...
A startling new work from a Nobel prize-winning author: ten short stories, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. In the title story an earthquake exposes both an ocean bed strewn with tr...
Rarely have world writers of such variety and distinction appeared together in the same anthology. Their stories capture the range of emotions and situations of our human universe: tragedy, comedy, fantasy, satire, dramas of sexual love and of war...
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“An absolutely first-rate anthology. . . a thoughtful and intelligent paean to crime fiction.” — New York Sun
#1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century''s worth of superb crim...
Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer follows the inner lives of characters confronted by unforeseen circumstances. Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and ...
In this collection of new stories Nadine Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the fearless insight that is the hallmark of her writing. In the title story a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid a...
A stunning selection of the best short fiction from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature This collection of Nadine Gordimers short fiction demonstrates her rich use of language and her unsparing vision of politics, sexuality, and race. W...
A sharply observed new novel about post-apartheid South Africa from the Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each new work, she attacks -- with a clear-eyed fierceness, a lack of sentimentality, ...