The Late Bourgeois World

The Late Bourgeois World PDF Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: New York : Viking Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Deals with the suicide of a South African of British descent who is torn by divided loyalties.

The Late Bourgeois World

The Late Bourgeois World PDF Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: New York : Viking Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Deals with the suicide of a South African of British descent who is torn by divided loyalties.

The Late Bourgeois World

The Late Bourgeois World PDF Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408836017
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Liz Van Den Sandt's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for a failed act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues. Now Liz has been asked to perform a direct service for the Black Nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself. Can she take such a risk in the face of Max's example of the uselessness of such actions? Yet ... how can she not?

The Late Bourgeois World

The Late Bourgeois World PDF Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140056143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Deals with the suicide of a South African of British descent who is torn by divided loyalties.

July's People

July's People PDF Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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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.

My Son's Story

My Son's Story PDF Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 074756275X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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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.

A Guest of Honour

A Guest of Honour PDF Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747559880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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Brilliant and shocking novel set in South Africa by the Nobel Prize-winner

The Stone Country

The Stone Country PDF Author: Alex La Guma
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Life Times

Life Times PDF Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747596182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561

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Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and committed body of work won her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. In the opinion of the Academy: 'Through her magnificent epic writing she has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity.' Gordimer has said that while novelists take the reader by the hand developing 'a consistency of relationship that does not and cannot convey the quality of human life, where contact is more like the flash of fireflies, in and out, now here, now there, in darkness. Short-story writers see by the light of the flash; theirs is the only thing one can be sure of - the present moment.' Now, for the first time, the best of her stories are published in one volume.

Conversations with Nadine Gordimer

Conversations with Nadine Gordimer PDF Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878054442
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Conversations with Nadine Gordimer edited by Nancy Topping Bazin and Marilyn Dallman Seymour Nadine Gordimer is one of the contemporary world's most admired writers of novels and short stories. This volume collects three decades of her interviews. In them she presents her attitudes toward her art and its interconnection with the oppressive, volatile politics in her native land. She has traveled extensively to other countries only to discover that no matter how white her skin she is indeed African and the only country she can call home is South Africa. If you write honestly about life in South Africa, apartheid damns itself, she says. She is ruthlessly honest, and her fiction has played the vital role of communicating in detail to the rest of the world the effects of apartheid upon the daily lives of the South African people. To maintain her integrity, she writes as though she were dead, without any thought of how anyone will react to what she has written. She remains heroically undaunted both by the banning of three of her novels by the white government and by the protests of radical blacks who assert that whites cannot write convincingly about blacks.She is concerned neither with the image of blacks nor with the image of whites, only with revealing the complexity, the full truth. This truth condemns the racism upon which apartheid is built. In her nine novels and eight volumes of short stories, Gordimer digs deeper and deeper until she has thematic layers. These include betrayal-political, sexual, every form and power, the way human beings use power in their relationships. Her accounts in these interviews of how she works and of which writers she admires will fascinate readers, scholars, teachers, and students alike. Co-editors Nancy Topping Bazin retired from the faculty of the English and women's studies departments at Old Dominion University, and Marilyn Dallman Seymour retired from the staff of the Government Publications Department of the Old Dominion University Library.

Living in Hope and History

Living in Hope and History PDF Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408833034
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've written, a reflection of how I've looked at this century I've lived in.' It is, in fact, an extraordinary collection of essays, articles, appreciations of fellow writers and addresses delivered over four decades, including her Nobel Prize Lecture of 1991. We may examine here Nadine Gordimer's evidence of the inequities of Apartheid as she saw them in 1959, her shocking account of the bans on literature still in effect in the mid-1970s, through to South Africa's emergence in 1994 as a country free at last, a view from the queue on that first day blacks and whites voted together plus updates on subsequent events. Gordimer's canvas is global and her themes wide-ranging. She examines the impact of technology on our expanding world-view, the convergence of the moral and the political in fiction and she reassesses the role of the writer in the world today.