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Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction 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, appreciations of fellow writers and addresses delivered over four ...

FICTION / Short Stories (single author)

»Die Zukunft«, sagt die weiße Juristin und aktive Gegnerin der Apartheid Vera Stark zu ihrem Mann Ben, »besteht darin, die Vergangenheit rückgängig zu machen.« Sie meint es politisch und weiß, es gilt auch für ihr Leben. Sie zieht die Konsequenzen, trennt sich von ihrem Mann, verkauft das ihr durch die Scheidung zugefallene Haus und geht den dornigen Weg der Politik allein weiter.

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Tredici racconti. Tredici frammenti di vite. Storie d'amore. Gli incontri veri o immaginati dell'autrice con alcuni grandi scrittori del ventesimo secolo. La storia che dà il titolo alla raccolta, vede un professore di biologia di Johannesburg ripercorrere la propria storia familiare. Al centro un tema paradossale e significativo: se un tempo tutti desideravano avere almeno una goccia di sangue bianco nelle vene, oggi vale l'esatto contrario, ...

A perfect example of what literature can give us that history books cannot."-Francine Prose, The New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Steve and Jabulile, once clandestine lovers under a racist law forbidding sexual relations between black and white, are living in a newly free South Africa. Both were combatants in the struggle against apartheid, and now, he, a university lecturer, and she, a lawyer, are parents...

Set in the new South Africa and in an Arab village in the desert, this is a gripping tale of contemporary anguish and unexpected desire from a Nobel Prize-winning writer.

A moving, powerful book that, in a career rich with distinguished works, could well be considered her masterpiece."—Publishers WeeklyHillela is Nadine Gordimer's "sport of nature": a spontaneous mutation, a new type of untainted person, she is seductive and intuitively gifted for life. A Sport of Nature is the bold, sweeping story of her rise from obscurity to an unpredictable kind of political power.Abandoned by her mother, Hillela is left to...

Mehring, a rich, powerful, and vital industrialist, 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, and even the land rises up as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. Nadine Gordimer paints a fascinating portrait of a man both reckless and calculating, a "conse...

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Endlich können Jabulile und Steve als Paar zusammenleben. Nach dem Ende des Apartheidregimes, unter dem ihre Liebe verboten war, bauen sie sich ein gemeinsames Leben auf. Doch das neue Südafrika ist keine Insel der Glückseligkeit: Korruption, Gewalt, disparate Besitzverhältnisse, eine große Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich bestimmen die Lebenswirklichkeit. Mit poetischer Präzision benennt Nadine Gordimer die ungelösten Probleme Südafrikas und setz...

Hillela is a sport of nature: a spontaneous mutation, a new type of untainted person, she is seductive and intuitively gifted for life. This is the bold, sweeping story of her rise from obscurity to an unpredictable kind of political power.

Liz Van Den Sandt's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for an act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues. Now Liz has been asked to perform a service for the Black Nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself. Can she take the risk?

FICTION / Literary

FICTION / General

In ¿Die Begünstigte" geht es um eine junge Frau, deren Mutter gestorben ist. Unter den Papieren, die sie ordnen muss, findet sie einen Brief ihres Vaters, aus dem hervorgeht, dass er vielleicht gar nicht ihr Vater ist. Der Mann, der unter Umständen ihr biologischer Vater ist, ein berühmter Schauspieler, nähert sich ihr, als er ein Engagement in der Stadt hat. Sie ist von ihm fasziniert ... In einem chinesischen Restaurant in New York treffen s...

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Mehring, a rich industrialist, has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. Gordimer offers a fascinating study of the forces and relationships that seethe in South Africa today.

Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and committed body of work won her the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the opinion of the Academy: 'Through her magnificent epic writing she has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to ...