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Living in Hope and History: Notes from Our Century (1999)
Meditations on fiction, morality, and politics by the
Nobel laureate.
The writer sometimes must risk both the state's indictment of treason,
and the liberation forces' complaint of lack of blind commitment. As a
human being, no writer can stoop to the lie of Manichean "balance." The
devil always has lead in his shoes, when placed on his side of the
scale. Yet . . . the writer must take the right to explore, warts and
all, both the enemy and the beloved comrade in arms, since only a try
for the truth makes sense of being, only a try for the truth edges
toward justice just ahead of Yeats's beast slouching to be born. -from
the 1991 Nobel Prize Lecture
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. Including her reminiscences of
Nelson Mandela and Gnter Grass, her correspondence with the Japanese
novelist Kenzaburo Oe, and her reflections on race in Africa and
America, these passionate writings lay bare the preoccupations of a
lifetime.
Get a Life (2005)
Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer follows the
inner lives of characters confronted by unforeseen circumstances. 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—and for a period a
danger to others—he begins to question, as
W.H. Auden wrote, “what Authority gives / existence its surprise.”
As Paul recuperates in the garden of his childhood home, he enters an
unthinkable existence and another kind of illumination—a process that
will irrevocably change not only his life but the lives of his wife and
parents. -
The Pickup (2001)
When Julie Summers's car breaks down on a sleazy
street in a South African city, a young Arab mechanic named Abdu comes
to her aid. Their attraction to one another is fueled by different
motives. Julie is in rebellion against her wealthy background and her
father; Abdu, an illegal immigrant, is desperate to avoid deportation to
his impoverished country. In the course of their relationship, there are
unpredictable consequences, and overwhelming emotions will overturn each
one's notion of the other.
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The House Gun (1998)
A house gun--kept like a house cat: a fact of
ordinary life at the end of this century where violence is in the air.
With that gun the architect son of Harald and Claudia has committed what
is to them the unimaginable act--shot dead the intimate friend he
discovered making love to his woman. And the relationship between the
three is revealed to have unimaginable meaning....
How has Duncan come to abandon the sanctity of human life they taught
him? What kind of loyalty do parents owe a self-confessed murderer? In
post-apartheid South Africa the defense of their son's life is in the
hands of a black man: Hamilton Motsamai, a flamboyant, distinguished
advocate returned from political exile. The balance of everything in the
parents' world is turned upside down.
The House Gun is a passionate narrative of that final text of
complex human relations we call love, moving from the intimate to the
general condition. If it is a parable of present violence it is also an
affirmation of the will to reconciliation that starts where it must,
between individual men and women.
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None to Accompany Me (1994)
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My Son's Story (1990)
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A Sport of Nature (1987)
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July's People (1981)
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Burger's Daughter (1979)
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The Conservationist (1974) - Joint winner
1974 Booker prize
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A Guest of Honour 1970)
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The Late Bourgeois World (1966)
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Occasion for Loving (1963)
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A World Of Strangers (1958)
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The Lying Days (1953)
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Face to Face
(1949)
Writing and Being (1998)
Whether talking about her own writing,
interpreting the works of others, or giving us a window on the world
that "we in South Africa are attempting to reconstruct," Nadine Gordimer
has much to tell us about the art of fiction and the art of life.
In this deeply resonant book Gordimer examines the tension for a writer
between life's experiences and narrative creations. She asks first,
where do characters come from--to what extent are they drawn from real
life? We are touching on this question whenever we insist on the facts
behind the fiction, Gordimer suggests, and here she tries to unravel the
mysterious process that breathes "real" life into fiction. Exploring the
writings of revolutionaries in South Africa, she shows how their
struggle is contrastingly expressed in factual accounts and in lyrical
poetry. Gordimer next turns to three writers linked by their search for
a life that transcends their own time and place: in distinctive and
telling ways, Naguib Mahfouz, Chinua Achebe, and Amos Oz defy accepted
norms of loyalty to the mores and politics of their countries. Their
search in Egypt, Nigeria, and Israel for a meaningful definition of home
testifies to what it must be: the destination of the human spirit beyond
national boundaries. Ending on a personal note, Gordimer reveals her own
experience of "writing her way out of" the confines of a dying
colonialism. -
The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places (1988)
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Lifetimes Under Apartheid
(1986) with David Goldblatt, Photographer
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories (2007)
In this collection of new stories Nadine
Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love
with the fearless insight that is the hallmark of her writing. In the
title story a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid
activist embarks on an unadmitted pursuit of the possibilities for his
own racial identity in his great-grandfather’s fortune-hunting interlude
of living rough on diamond diggings in South Africa, his young wife far
away in London. “Dreaming of the Dead” conjures up a lunch in a New York
Chinese restaurant where Susan Sontag and Edward Said return in
surprising new avatars as guests in the dream of a loving friend. The
historian in “History” is a parrot who confronts people with the
scandalizing voice reproduction of quarrels and clandestine love-talk on
which it has eavesdropped.“Alternative Endings” considers the way
writers make arbitrary choices in how to end stories—and offers three,
each relating the same situation, but with a different resolution,
arrived at by the three senses: sight, sound, and smell. -
Loot and Other Stories (2003)
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 bed strewn with
treasure and the avarice of the town’s survivors. “Mission Statement” is
the story of a bureaucrat’s idealism, the ghosts of colonial history,
and a love affair with a government minister that ends astoundingly. And
in “Karma,” Gordimer’s inventiveness knows no bounds: in five returns to
earthly life, a disembodied narrator, taking on different ages and
genders, testifies to unfinished business and questions the nature of
existence. Revelatory and powerful, these are stories that challenge our
deepest convictions even as they dazzle us with their artful lyricism.
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Why Haven't You Written?: Selected Stories 1950-1972 (1993)
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Crimes of Conscience (1991)
This powerful collection of short stories, set in
Gordimer's native South Africa, reveals her outstanding ability to
pierce the core of the human condition.
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Jump and Other Short Stories
(1991)
Fifteen thematically and geographically wide-ranging
stories from the Nobel Prize Winner, with settings ranging from suburban
London to Mozambique.
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Six Feet of the Country (1986)
Seven stories from south africa's finest living
writer that distil the essence of what has been happening in that
country in recent years, through people and landscapes so intensely and
evocatively drawn that they seem to burn a hole in the page. The
stories included her have been selected from two previous collections,
No Place Like and A Soldier's Embrace.
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A Soldier's Embrace: Stories
(1980)
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Gordimer: Selected Stories
(1976)
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The Soft Voice of the Serpent and Other Stories
(1952)
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Telling Tales (2004), Nadine
Gordimer, ed.
Rarely have world writers of such variety and
distinction appeared together in the same anthology. Their stories
capture the range of emotions and situations of our human universe:
tragedy, comedy, fantasy, satire, dramas of sexual love and of war in
different continents and cultures. They are not about HIV / AIDS. But
all twenty-one writers have given their stories--chosen by themselves as
representing some of the best of their lifetime work as
storytellers--without any fee or royalty. Telling Tales is being
published in more than twelve countries. The publisher's profits from
the sales of this book will go to HIV / AIDS preventive education and
for medical treatment for people living with the suffering this pandemic
infection brings to our contemporary world. So when you buy this unique
anthology of renowned storytellers as a gift or for your own reading
pleasure, you are also making a gift to combat the plague of our new
millennium.
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A Collection of Works by Nadine Gordimer
(1992)
July's People, My Son's Story, and
Jump and Other Stories
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