July's People is a 1981 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. Gordimer wrote the book before the end of apartheid as her prediction of how it would end. The book was notably banned in South Africa after its publication.
The Pickup is a 2001 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer. It tells the story of a couple: Julie Summers, a white woman from a financially secure family, and Abdu, an illegal Arab immigrant in South Africa. After Abdu's visa is refused, the couple returns to his unnamed homeland, where she is the alien. Her …
Burger's Daughter is an historical and political novel by the South African Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Nadine Gordimer, first published in the United Kingdom in June 1979 by Jonathan Cape. The book was expected to be banned in South Africa, and a month after publication in London the import and sale of the book …
Una sera di gennaio del 1996 qualcuno bussa alla porta di Harald e Claudia Lindgard per annunciare una terribile notizia: Duncan, il loro unico figlio, Ú stato arrestato con l'accusa di avere ucciso un amico che ha trovato a letto con la propria ragazza. Che genere di lealtà un padre e una madre devono a un figlio …
Il conservatore è un romanzo di Nadine Gordimer del 1974. Il romanzo è stato premiato con il Booker Prize a pari merito con Holiday di Stanley Middleton, ed è stato selezionato nel 1998 tra i finalisti del premio speciale Best of the Booker.
"Gordimer has taken South Africa's tragedy and laid the truth of it in our laps. The story she tells is lucid and achingly alive."The Boston Sunday Globe.
Get a Life is a 2005 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. The novel tells the story of environmental activist Paul Bannerman and his family. Paul is diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery and subsequent radiation treatment, has to live quarantined at his parent's place for some time. This …