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Author: Nadine Gordimer Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408832631 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
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In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses circle their lodge. Jump is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid.
Author: Nadine Gordimer Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408832631 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses circle their lodge. Jump is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid.
Author: Benjamin Elkin Publisher: ISBN: 9780001711044 Category : Children's stories Languages : en Pages : 64
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Three short stories, with limited vocabulary and told in folk-tale style. Only the King could have a dog for a pet, but Ben and the pup change that rule.
Author: Nadine Gordimer Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 140883295X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 754
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Nadine Gordimer's life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of colonial rule in South Africa, to the long, brutal fight to overthrow South Africa's apartheid regime and to her leadership role over the last 20 years in confronting the dangers of AIDS, globalisation, and ethnic violence. The range of this book is staggering, from Gordimer's first piece in The New Yorker in 1954, in which she autobiographically traces her emergence as a brilliant, young writer in a racist country, to her pioneering role in recognising the greatest African and European writers of her generation, to her truly, courageous stance in supporting Nelson Mandela and other members of the ANC during their years of imprisonment. Given that Gordimer will never write an autobiography, Telling Times is an important document of twentieth-century social and political history, told through the voice of one of its greatest literary figures.
Author: Nadine Gordimer Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 0747596182 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 561
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Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and committed body of work won her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. In the opinion of the Academy: 'Through her magnificent epic writing she has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity.' Gordimer has said that while novelists take the reader by the hand developing 'a consistency of relationship that does not and cannot convey the quality of human life, where contact is more like the flash of fireflies, in and out, now here, now there, in darkness. Short-story writers see by the light of the flash; theirs is the only thing one can be sure of - the present moment.' Now, for the first time, the best of her stories are published in one volume.
Author: Nadine Gordimer Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408832968 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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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, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July - the shifts in character and relationships - gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.
Author: Howard Waldrop Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
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Presents a collection of collaborative short stories between Howard Waldrop and such authors as Leigh Kennedy, Steven Ultey, and Buddy Saunders.
Author: Eugenia W. Collier Publisher: Black Classic Press ISBN: 9780933121799 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 196
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In Breeder, author Eugenia Collier disturbs the peace. Unsettling tales steeped in the African American oral tradition recall a shameful past and foreshadow an uncertain future. A master storyteller, Collier changes voices with the ease of a chameleon, spanning broad emotional spectrum from dark moods to bright moments. Included in this collected is the ever-popular short-story, Marigolds.
Author: Nadine Gordimer Publisher: Penguin Mass Market ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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A collection of short stories by the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Son's Story and Jump and Other Stories features tales of human separation and entanglement and of love and freedom.
Author: Gaia Cornwall Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 1536220671 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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Working up the courage to take a big, important leap is hard, but Jabari is almost absolutely ready to make a giant splash. Jabari is definitely ready to jump off the diving board. He’s finished his swimming lessons and passed his swim test, and he’s a great jumper, so he’s not scared at all. “Looks easy,” says Jabari, watching the other kids take their turns. But when his dad squeezes his hand, Jabari squeezes back. He needs to figure out what kind of special jump to do anyway, and he should probably do some stretches before climbing up onto the diving board. In a sweetly appealing tale of overcoming your fears, newcomer Gaia Cornwall captures a moment between a patient and encouraging father and a determined little boy you can’t help but root for.
Author: Nadine Gordimer Publisher: Turtleback Books ISBN: 9781417636259 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages :
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The Nobel Prize-winning author treats the dynamics of family life, international terrorism, and racial tension in her native South Africa and elsewhere with characteristic moral and emotional force and striking detail in sixteen new stories.
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Author: Benjamin Elkin
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Author: Howard Waldrop
Author: Eugenia W. Collier
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Author: Gaia Cornwall
Author: Nadine Gordimer