Nadine Gordimer, Author Penguin Books $16 (336p) ISBN 978-0-14-025039-8
Nobel Prize winner Gordimer's novel follows two couples, one black, one white, and their evolving interaction with each other and with society during the unraveling of South African apartheid. (Oct.)
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Nadine Gordimer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-374-22264-2
Nobel laureate Gordimer’s latest novel (after the story collection Life Times), set in contemporary South Africa, revolves around Steve, who’s Jewish, and Jabulile (Jabu), who’s black. Both were “comrades” in the fight for racial equality (Steve...
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Nadine Gordimer, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-18991-4
Nobel literature laureate Gordimer (The House Gun, etc.) has collected decades' worth of erudite essays and lectures about literature, culture, human rights and, of course, her work and home ground of South Africa. The first essay, a 1988 effort on...
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Nadine Gordimer, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (294p) ISBN 978-0-374-17307-4
When a society breeds violence, its effects filter into the lives of its most privileged citizens. As she has done so trenchantly throughout her career, Nobel Prize winner Gordimer (None to Accompany Me) again examines moral questions in microcosm...
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Nadine Gordimer, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $22 (324p) ISBN 978-0-374-22297-0
The latest novel from Nobel Prize-winner Gordimer about private and public life among South Africa's blacks and whites begins rather slowly, but it includes so many brilliant moves of plot and character, and such emotionally rending scenes and...
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Nadine Gordimer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (341p) ISBN 978-0-394-54802-9
This ninth novel (July's People, Burger's Daughter, The Conservationist, etc.) by Gordimer deals, as does most of her writing, with South Africa, her native land, with the emerging black leadership of surrounding states and with the ways in which...
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Nadine Gordimer, Author Penguin Books $13 (112p) ISBN 978-0-14-006559-6
This slim, arresting collection of seven stories from one of South Africa's preeminent writers, portions of which have appeared elsewhere, is set in and near Johannesburg. The title story tells of a black who has traveled hundreds of miles from his...
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Nadine Gordimer, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $19.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-374-21751-8
Highly praised as a literate goad to South Africa's conscience under apartheid, Gordimer ( A Sport of Nature ) here delivers her most perceptive and powerful novel in years. The story of a man's evolution as a political activist and the toll it...
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Nadine Gordimer, Author Penguin Books $12.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-14-008470-2
Gordimer weaves together the tale of the life of Hillela, a South African Jew, with a history of modern South Africa since the 1950s. PW stated that this ninth novel of Gordimer's ""could well be considered her masterpiece.'' (March)
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Nadine Gordimer, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-23210-8
While Nobel Prize–winner Gordimer's trenchant fiction has always achieved universal relevance in capturing apartheid and its lingering effects in South Africa, this new work attains still broader impact as she explores the condition of...
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Nadine Gordimer, Author Harvard University Press $20.5 (160p) ISBN 978-0-674-96232-3
Drawing on lectures delivered at Harvard, Nobel laureate Gordimer, musing on the links between life and literature, offers some fascinating personal reflections as well as thoughts on fellow writers in South Africa and other countries. Her...
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Nadine Gordimer, Author Penguin Books $16 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-016534-0
Nobel Prize winner Gordimer's latest collection of short fiction brilliantly illuminates the consequences of political repression. (Oct.)
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Nadine Gordimer, Author Penguin Books $15 (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-015975-2
Nobel Prize-winning author Gordimer's story of segregated South Africa focuses on Sonny, a black teacher whose revolutionary activities, imprisonment and extramarital affair with a white human rights activist profoundly affect his family. According...
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Nadine Gordimer, Author Norton 39.95 (800p) ISBN 978-0-393-06628-9
Politics and literature intersect in this comprehensive—sometimes too comprehensive—collection of nonfiction writings by the Nobel Prize–winning South African novelist and antiapartheid activist. Covering five decades, these short pieces run the...
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Nadine Gordimer, Author Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc $20 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-18055-3
Written with consummate artistry, this South African writer's latest collection of short fiction illuminates her concerns about the human consequences of political repression. Gordimer ( A Sport of Nature ; Something Out There ; The Essential...
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Nadine Gordimer, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $20 (177p) ISBN 978-0-374-10982-0
Thirteen stories from South African Nobel Prize–winner Gordimer offer a staccato demonstration of how people’s origins, inheritances and histories—and the loss of them—are inescapable. The title story centers on the white,...
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Nadine Gordimer, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $20 (187p) ISBN 978-0-374-16170-5
The phrase "late work" is usually reserved for masters, and it is appropriate to this 14th novel from Gordimer, whose cruel meditations on mortality and commitment are enacted within two marriages a generation apart. Paul Bannerman, a 35-year
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Nadine Gordimer, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-19090-3
As was the case with many South African writers, Gordimer's fiction benefited, ironically enough, from the stark moral contrasts created by apartheid. The nine stories in this collection show Gordimer trying to gain a fictional perspective on...
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Nadine Gordimer, Author, Nadine Cordimer, Author, Stephen Clingman, Editor Knopf Publishing Group $19.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-394-57397-7
Collected here are 23 biographical and autobiographical pieces, reviews, travelogues and analytical essays on writing, censorship and South African politics. They date from an article written in 1963, in which Gordimer recalls how her writing career
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