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...

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...

A sharply observed new novel about post-apartheid South Africa from the Nobel Prize winnerNadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each new work, she attacks-with a clear-eyed fierceness, a lack of...

Jump and Other Stories collects fifteen thematically and geographically wide-ranging tales from political activist and Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, with settings ranging from suburban London to Mozambique.With unflinching...

Zehn meisterhafte Erzählungen der südafrikanischen Nobelpreisträgerin Nadine Gordimer Jede Erzählung ist eine Offenlegung inneren Lebens, jede voller überraschende Wendungen, jede in dem geschliffenen Stil und der kompromisslosen...

A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa"Ranks as one of Gordimer's best novels...It transcends politics and aims at a meaning higher than human striving."---The Philadelphia InquirerWhen Julie...

"Superb...a series of masterly drawn glimpses into the storymaking art of one of Africa's great modern literary geniuses." -Alan Cheuse, NPR A selection of short stories written to date by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, Life Times...

„A World of Strangers“ ist ein Roman der südafrikanischen Autorin Nadine Gordimer, der erstmals 1958 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte spielt in den 1950er Jahren während der Apartheid in Südafrika und folgt dem jungen Engländer Toby...

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...

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...

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...

"None to Accompany Me" ist ein Roman der südafrikanischen Schriftstellerin Nadine Gordimer, der sich mit den Themen Identität, Veränderung und persönlicher Wandel inmitten politischer Umbrüche auseinandersetzt. Die Geschichte spielt im...