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.

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

The latest collection of stories from Nobel and Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer

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

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 Gordimer describes Living in Hope and History as a "modest book of some of the nonfiction 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, and addresses delivered over four decades, including her Nobel Prize Lecture of 1991.

Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery, prescribed treatment that will leave him radioactive, he is isolated from other people and he begins to question his work and the politics of South Africa.

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.

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

Toby Hood, a young Englishman, shuns the politics and the causes his liberal parents passionately support. Living in Johannesburg as a representative of his family's publishing company, Toby moves easily, carelessly, between the complacent wealthy white suburbs and the seething, vibrantly alive black townships. His friends include a wide variety of people, from mining directors to black journalists and musicians, and Toby's colonial-style weekends are often interspersed with clandestine evenings spent in black shanty towns. Toby's friendship with Steven Sithole, a dashing, embittered young African, touches him in ways he never thought possible, and when Steven's own sense of independence from the rules of society leads to tragedy, Toby's life is changed forever.

" 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.

This collection of short stories covers 25 years of the author's career. By the author of Crimes of Conscience.

A powerful collection of short stories set in Southern Africa.

Hillela ist ein außergewöhnliches Mädchen, und sie wächst zu einer kraftvollen, innerlich freien Frau heran. Der Titel spielt zunächst einmal auf den Zufall der unterschiedlichen Hautfarben an, aber es ist sicher ebenso richtig, den Titel auf die Hauptgestalt zu beziehen. Hillela ist wie durch ein Spiel der Natur ganz frei vom Rassismus ihrer Umgebung; schon als Mädchen muß sie ein Internat in Rhodesien verlassen, weil sie sich mit einem farbigen Jungen anfreundet. Später heiratet sie einen schwarzen Widerstandskämpfer aus Südafrika. Der Roman ist der Versuch, eine Frauengestalt zu schildern, die alle Schranken des kolonialen Afrika - Schranken auf seiten der Weißen ebenso wie auf seiten der Schwarzen - hinter sich läßt. Nadine Gordimer hat in Hillela nicht nur eine überzeugende Frau von großer Wärme, Sinnlichkeit und Freiheit geschaffen, sondern auch einen Menschen, der in dieser afrikanischen Welt der Gegensätze seinen Platz findet.

The son of an anti-apartheid activist discovers his father's shocking secret in the Nobel laureate's "bold, unnerving tour de force" (Robert Coles, The New York Times Book Review). When Will skips school to slip off to a movie theater near Johannesburg, he is shocked to see his father. An ordinary mishap, but his father is no ordinary man. He is a "colored" and revered anti-apartheid hero, and his female companion is a white activist fiercely dedicated to the cause. As Will struggles with confusion and bitterness, My Son's Story unravels the consequences of one man's infidelity as a new South Africa violently emerges from the apartheid. "Captures with convincing detail the ecstatic rewards and terrifying costs of revolutionary politics . . . Delineates with unblinking candor the collision of public and private experience that takes place on a daily basis in South Africa . . . A fiercely intelligent novel—one of her most powerful yet." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Gordimer has taken South Africa's tragedy and laid the truth of it in our laps. The story she tell sis lucid and achingly alive." — The Boston Sunday Globe

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.

"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.