Nadine Gordimer

Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747592334

Sense play a telling part in three of the stories in Nadine Gordimer's magnificent new collection. In one we meet a woman who can gauge the stability of her marriage by the tone of her husband's cello...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:160

USD $28.97

 

Burger's Daughter (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747549796

In this work, Nadine Gordimer unfolds the story of a young woman's slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of present-day South Africa...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:374

USD $14.13

 Out Of Print

Get a Life (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747581758

Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, believes he controls the trajectory of his life, with the markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive and for a period a danger to others...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:208

USD $28.97

 

Get a Life (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747582427

When Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, is diagnosed with cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive, his suddenly fragile existence makes him question his life for the first time. He is especially struck by the contradiction in values between his work as a conservationist and that of his wife...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:208

USD $15.42

 

July's People (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747578383

For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:176

USD $15.42

 

Jump (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747511892

Through Nadine Gordimer's magnificently crafted stories a reader embarks on journeys across cultures, from the war in Mozambique to the beaches of South of France...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:272

USD $14.13

 

Living in Hope and History (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747544715

This collection of essays, articles, critiques and addresses extends over four decades, and includes the author's Nobel Prize lecture of 1991. Her themes are wide-ranging...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:250

USD $36.66

 

Living in Hope and History (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747548232

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:256

USD $16.06

 

Loot (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747564973

A startling new work of ten fictions, each a revelation of our interior lives. In the title story an earthquake exposes both an ocean bed strewn with treasures among the dead...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:240

USD $28.97

 

Loot (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747565383

A startling new work from a Nobel prize-winning author: ten short stories, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. In the title story an earthquake exposes both an ocean bed strewn with treasure among the dead...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:256

USD $14.13

 

Lying Days (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747559931

Nadine Gordimer's first novel, published originally in 1953, tells the story of Helen Shaw, daughter of white, middle-class parents in a small gold-mining town in South Africa. As Helen comes of age...more details
Format:Paperback  

USD $14.13

 Out Of Print

My Son's Story (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747562757

A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of the cinema with a woman. An ordinary mishap, but the father is no ordinary man...more details
Format:Paperback  

USD $14.13

 

None to Accompany Me (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747518211

Set in South Africa, this is the story of Vera Stark, a lawyer and an independent mother of two, who works for the Legal Foundation representing blacks trying to reclaim land that was once theirs. As her country lurches towards majority rule...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:288

USD $32.15

 

The Conservationist (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747578246

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:272

USD $15.42

 

The House Gun (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747536666

A successful, respected executive director of an insurance company, Harald, and his doctor wife, Claudia, are faced with something that could never happen to them: their son has committed murder...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:294

USD $32.15

 

The House Gun (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747542575

What kind of loyalty do a mother and father owe a son who has committed the unimaginable? How has he come to disregard the sanctity of human life? What have they done to influence his character? Where have they failed him? Duncan's guilt is self-confessed...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:294

USD $14.13

 Out Of Print

The Pickup (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747554271

Who picked up whom? Is the pickup the illegal immigrant desperate to evade deportation to his impoverished desert country? Or is the pickup the powerful businessman's daughter trying to escape a privileged background she despises? When Julie Summers' car breaks down in the sleazy street where she meets her Retro-Sixties friends...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:288

USD $32.15

 

The Pickup (Book)

Nadine Gordimer

ISBN:9780747557951

When Julie Summers' car breaks down in a sleazy street, a young Arab garage mechanic comes to her rescue. Out of this meeting develops a friendship that turns to love. But soon...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

USD $15.42