New Releases by Nadine Gordimer

An astounding collection of personal and political stories set in varied locales and cultures. 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. Chhalang is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid.

A bold, sweeping story of one girl''s rise from obscurity to an unpredictable kind of political powerAbandoned by her mother, Hillela is left to be raised by her two aunts in South Africa. At Olga''s she might have acquired a taste for antiques and a style of dress to please a suitable husband. At Pauline''s she might have developed a social conscience. But Hillela''s betrayal of her position as a surrogate daughter so shocks both families that at seventeen she is cast adrift.Swiftly and perilously, her life opens out. She lives as a footloose girl among political exiles on a beach in East Africa, drifting between jobs and lovers, and finally becomes the wife of a black revolutionary. Personal tragedy is ultimately the catalyst for her political development, leading her into a heroic role in the overthrow of apartheid.

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?

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, and a deep understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul—her eternal themes: the inextricable link between personal and communal history; the inescapable moral ambiguities of daily life; the political and racial tensions that persist in her homeland, South Africa. And in each new work is fresh evidence of her literary genius: in the sharpness of her psychological insights, the stark beauty of her language, the complexity of her characters, and the difficult choices with which they are faced. In No Time Like the Present, Gordimer trains her keen eye on Steve and Jabulile, an interracial couple living in a newly, tentatively, free South Africa. They have a daughter, Sindiswa; they move to the suburbs; Steve becomes a lecturer at a university; Jabulile trains to become a lawyer; there is another child, a boy this time. There is nothing so extraordinary about their lives, and yet, in telling their story and the stories of their friends and families, Gordimer manages to capture the tortured, fragmented essence of a nation struggling to define itself post-apartheid. The subject is contemporary, but Gordimer''s treatment is, as ever, timeless. In No Time Like the Present, she shows herself once again a master novelist, at the height of her prodigious powers.

The latest novel from the internationally acclaimed and Booker Prize-winning author

A stunning selection of the best short fiction from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature This collection of Nadine Gordimer's short fiction demonstrates her rich use of language and her unsparing vision of politics, sexuality, and race. Whether writing about lovers, parents and children, or married couples, Gordimer maps out the terrain of human relationships with razor-sharp psychological insight and a stunning lack of sentimentality. The selection, which spans the course of Gordimer's career to date, presents the range of her storytelling abilities and her brilliant insight into human nature. From such epics as "Friday's Footprint" and "Something Out There" to her shorter, more experimental stories, Gordimer's work is unfailingly nuanced and complex. Time and again, it forces us to examine how our stated intentions come into conflict with our unspoken desires. This definitive volume, which includes four new stories from the Nobel laureate, is a testament to the power, force, and ongoing relevance of Gordimer's vision.

A comprehensive collection of the author''s nonfiction works ranges from reports on the 1976 Soweto uprising and observations of Zimbabe at the dawn of independence to portraits of such figures as Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.

"You''re not responsible for your ancestry, are you . . . But if that''s so, why have marched under banned slogans, got yourself beaten up by the police, arrested a couple of times; plastered walls with subversive posters . . . The past is valid only in relation to whether the present recognizes it." In this collection of new stories, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black, 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 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 guests in the dream of a loving friend. The historian in "History" is a parrot who confronts people with the scandalizing voice reproduction of quarrels and clandestine love-talk on which it has eavesdropped. "Alternative Endings" considers the way writers make arbitrary choices in how to end stories—and offers three, each relating the same situation, but with a different resolution, arrived at by the three senses: sight, sound, and smell.

Fifteen thematically and geographically wide-ranging stories from the Nobel Prize Winner, with settings ranging from suburban London to Mozambique.

A terrifyingly plausible vision from one of the most enduring and acclaimed writers in the English language

With her characteristic brilliance, Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer follows the inner lives of characters confronted by unforeseen circumstances. An earthquake offers tragedy and opportunity in the title story, exposing both an ocean bed strewn with treasure and the avarice of the town''s survivors. "Mission Statement" is the story of a bureaucrat''s idealism, the ghosts of colonial history, and a love affair with a government minister that ends astoundingly. And in "Karma," Gordimer''s inventiveness knows no bounds: in five returns to earthly life, a disembodied narrator, taking on different ages and genders, testifies to unfinished business and questions the nature of existence. Revelatory and powerful, these are stories that challenge our deepest convictions even as they dazzle us with their artful lyricism.

None to Accompany Me is arresting and reverbant - perhaps the most powerful novel to date by one of the world''s most commanding writers. 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 into her participation into the present as a lawyer representing blacks in the struggle to reclaim the land.

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.

Longlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize: the compelling story of a relationship between a young white South African woman and a young Arab man

Gordimer describes this collection of her non-fiction pieces as a reflection of how I''ve looked at this century I''ve lived in. The essays and articles encompass wide-ranging and global themes from the South Africa of 1956 to the emergence of a free state in 1994, and the impact of technology.

" Plus terrible qu'un krach boursier, que la guerre en Bosnie, le vendredi noir de ce couple bon chic bon teint, blanc, riche, politiquement très sûr de lui dans une Afrique du Sud pas encore débarrassée de la peine de mort. Claudia et Harald viennent d'apprendre que Duncan, leur fils, a assassiné son ex-amant qu'il a surpris avec sa propre petite amie. [...] Tout leur vie, patiemment construire à l'ombre ou à la lumière de Dieu, faite de pensées libérales et d'idées novatrices, est entre les mains d'un avocat brillant et noir. Nadine Gordimer dissèque une nature humaine prisonnière d'un monde devenu plus gris que franchement noir et blanc. Cette étude psychologique raffinée et fouillée fait monter notre adrénaline jusqu'à la plaidoirie étourdissante d'Hamilton et le jugement qu'on lit d'une traite. On reste sonné et désorienté, la tête pleine de questions sur le monde, la famille, l'éducation, la haine ou la politique, que l'auteur trop rusée soulève sans nous donner toutes les réponses. Libres à nous de devenir l'avocat de nos propres démons. "

Nadine Gordimer began her writing life at a relatively young age. In 1991, that life received the ultimate recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In this volume, Gordimer, who has been described by her peers as a formidable visitor from the future, the leviathan of South African letters and almost always as a gifted writer with extraordinary powers of observation, is paid homage by fellow writers from South Africa and other parts of the world. The book comprises readings, tributes, fiction, poetry, interviews and photographs which engage directly and indirectly with Gordimer's work and her still unfolding legacy.

Qu'elle évoque son propre travail ou qu'elle interprète celui des autres, ou qu'elle entrouvre une fenêtre sur le monde "qu'ils tentent de reconstruire en Afrique du Sud", Nadine Gordimer a beaucoup a nous dire sur l'art de la fiction et sur l'art de la vie. L'auteur explore les tensions auxquelles est soumis l'écrivain entre ses expériences et ses créations narratives. Elle pose la question : d'où viennent les personnages ? Dans quelle mesure ont-ils surgi du réel ? Par quel processus mystérieux l'écrivain insuffle-t-il la "vraie vie" dans la fiction ? Analysant les écrits de certains révolutionnaires d'Afrique du Sud, elle démontre à quel point leur lutte s'exprime de manière contrastée en des récits à la fois très factuels et d'un grand lyrisme poétique. L'auteur se penche également sur trois écrivains qui ont défié, chacun à leur manière, les normes d'allégeance aux moeurs et aux systèmes politiques de leur pays : l'Egyptien Naguib Mahfouz, le Nigérian Chinua Achebe et l'Israélien Amos Oz. Leur quête d'une définition de la patrie témoigne de manière éclatante de ce que l'esprit humain doit s'étendre au-delà des frontières de la nation. Enfin, dans une approche plus personnelle, Nadine Gordimer évoque sa propre expérience d'écrivain qui s'est inscrit au-delà des confins d'un colonialisme agonisant. Les six conférences contenues dans ce livre, que l'auteur a données à Harvard en 1994, sont suivies d'une essai sur la vie et l'oeuvre de Joseph Roth, et du discours de Nadine Gordimer lors de sa réception du prix Nobel, en 1991. Née en Afrique du Sud en 1923, Nadine Gordimer est l'auteur d'une vingtaine de romans et de recueils de nouvelles, parmi lesquels son dernier roman, Personne pour m'accompagner. Elle vit à Johannesbourg.

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.

Nadine Gordimer sait saisir ces instants où des vies basculent, où des êtres révèlent sans masque et sans fard leur nature profonde.

Verhalen, spelend in Zuid-Afrika.

In stories set in South Africa a woman betrays her husband's best friend, an activist and spy fall in love, refugees are forced to move, and politics strangles daily life.

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.

The historical and visionary, sweeping and personal story of an extraordinary South African woman's life from her childhood in Johannesburg to her becoming the wife of the black president of one of Africa's most progressive nations. Nadine Gordimer's last work ws Something Out There.

"This is a novel of enormous power'' New Statesman ''Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind'' -- New York Review of Books The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer 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 stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.

Seven stories of South Africa deal with a missing body, a mysterious Rhodesian visitor, a pass law protest, a white geologist and his Black secretary, and a pair of childhood sweethearts.