Gordimer, Nadine

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Telling times

writing and living, 1954-2008
2010
A comprehensive collection of the author's nonfiction works ranges from reports on the 1976 Soweto uprising and observations of Zimbabe at the dawn of independence to portraits of such figures as Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.

The house gun

1998
The lives of upper-class professional Johannesburg couple Harald and Claudia Lindgard are shattered when their twenty-seven-year-old son Duncan shoots and kills one of his friends.

None to accompany me

1994
Tells of a woman lawyer representing blacks in the struggle to reclaim the land in South Africa.

July's people

1982
When war break out in South Africa, a fugitive white family takes refuge with their black servant, July.

Burger's daughter

1980
The story of a young woman's evolving identity in the political environment of present-day South Africa.

Jump and other stories

1991
Sixteen short stories about subjects including family life, racist society, and political upheaval.

Writing and being

1995
A collection of six essays exploring the tension between a writer's art and real life, viewed in light of the author's experiences living in South Africa.

My son's story

1990
A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of a cinema with a woman.

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