New Releases by Nadine Gordimer

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

Set in South Africa, this is the story of Vera Stark, a lawyer and an independent mother of two, who works for the Legal Foundation representing blacks trying to reclaim land that was once theirs. As her country lurches towards majority rule, so she discovers a need to reconstruct her own life.

A tale of bitterness and division in South Africa, by the Booker and Nobel winning author

From Nobel and Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer, this collection illustrates the showdowns, stand-offs andhighlights of human intimacy while penetrating the nuances of immigration, national identity and race.

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.

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

A relationship forms between an Arab mechanic desperate to avoid deportation and a rich young woman desperate to escape her family's control.

" 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. "

A passionate narrative that explores the love and loyalty between parents and their offspring

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.

Verhalen, spelend in Zuid-Afrika.

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

Talks with the prize-winning author of Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories, July's People, The Pickup, and many other book

"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.