Nadine Gordimer
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadine Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New World, and her native South Africa. Living in Hope and History is an on-the-spot record of her years as a public figure-an observer of apartheid and its aftermath, a member of the ANC, and the champion of dissident writers everywhere.
In a letter to fellow Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine...
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
The novel is set in South Africa during the last days of the white regime. The heroine is Vera Stark, a white lawyer who works to restore land taken from blacks by the government. Her political work is played out against a background of family problems, among them an overbearing husband, a lesbian daughter and a son who has emigrated to England and is divorcing his wife. By the author of My Son's Story.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
In the title story, a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid activist embarks on an unadmitted pursuit of the possibilities for his own racial identity in his great-grandfather's fortune-hunting interlude of living rough on diamond diggings in South Africa, his young wife far away in London. "Dreaming of the Dead" conjures up a lunch in a New York Chinese restaurant where Susan Sontag and Edward Said return in surprising new avatars as...
Author
Pub. Date
1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
Description
In Burger's Daughter, Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer uses a coming-of-age story to explore the complicated political circumstances of modern South Africa. Rosa Burger is a white South African woman in her early twenties trying to uphold the political heritage handed on by her martyred parents while carving out a sense of self. Cast in the revolutionary mold, the only survivor of a family known for their anti-apartheid beliefs and practices, Rosa...
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Who picked up whom? Is the pickup the illegal immigrant desperate to evade deportation to his impoverished desert country? Or is the pickup the powerful businessman's daughter trying to escape a priveleged background she despises? When Julie Summers' car breaks down in a sleazy street, at a garage a young Arab emerges from beneath the chassis of a vehicle to aid her. The consequences develop as a story of unpredictably relentless emotions that overturn...
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
The Nobel Prize-winning author brings together twenty-one short stories in a special anthology aimed at HIVAIDS preventative education and treatment for the people in southern Africa, with contributions by Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Updike, Amos Oz, Kenzaburo Oe, Arthur Miller, Hanif Kureishi, Paul Theroux, and other notable authors.