Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410361500
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer's "The Ultimate Safari," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer's "The Ultimate Safari"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410361500
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer's "The Ultimate Safari," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410361500
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer's "The Ultimate Safari," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Jump and Other Stories
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses circle their lodge. Jump is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses circle their lodge. Jump is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid.
The Ultimate Safari
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780620281881
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780620281881
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
My Son's Story
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 074756275X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This is a passionate love story; love between a man and two women, between father and son, and something even more demanding- a love of freedom.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 074756275X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This is a passionate love story; love between a man and two women, between father and son, and something even more demanding- a love of freedom.
Town and Country Lovers
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783150092378
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783150092378
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
July's People
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July - the shifts in character and relationships - gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July - the shifts in character and relationships - gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.
Writing and Being
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674962323
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
In this deeply resonant book, Nobel Prize laureate Nadine Gordimer examines the tension for a writer between life's experiences and narrative creations, investigating where characters come from--to what extent are they drawn from real life?--and using the writings of South African revolutionaries to show how their struggle is contrastingly expressed in factual fiction and in lyrical poetry.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674962323
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
In this deeply resonant book, Nobel Prize laureate Nadine Gordimer examines the tension for a writer between life's experiences and narrative creations, investigating where characters come from--to what extent are they drawn from real life?--and using the writings of South African revolutionaries to show how their struggle is contrastingly expressed in factual fiction and in lyrical poetry.
The Pickup
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747557950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Longlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize: the compelling story of a relationship between a young white South African woman and a young Arab man
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747557950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Longlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize: the compelling story of a relationship between a young white South African woman and a young Arab man
None to Accompany Me
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832992
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Set in South Africa, this is the story of Vera Stark, a lawyer and an independent mother of two, who works for the Legal Foundation representing blacks trying to reclaim land that was once theirs. As her country lurches towards majority rule, so she discovers a need to reconstruct her own life.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832992
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Set in South Africa, this is the story of Vera Stark, a lawyer and an independent mother of two, who works for the Legal Foundation representing blacks trying to reclaim land that was once theirs. As her country lurches towards majority rule, so she discovers a need to reconstruct her own life.
Burger's Daughter
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101571055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
"A riveting history of South Africa and a penetrating portrait of a courageous woman." -- The New Yorker A must read fiction of South Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 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. Although it is wholly of today, Burger's Daughter can be compared to those 19th century Russian classics that make a certain time and place come alive, and yet stand as universal celebrations of the human spirit. Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born and lives in South Africa.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101571055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
"A riveting history of South Africa and a penetrating portrait of a courageous woman." -- The New Yorker A must read fiction of South Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 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. Although it is wholly of today, Burger's Daughter can be compared to those 19th century Russian classics that make a certain time and place come alive, and yet stand as universal celebrations of the human spirit. Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born and lives in South Africa.