BOOKS by Nadine Gordimer

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1	Julys People more books like this by Gordimer add to wishlist Bam and Maureen Smales, a South African couple who pride themselves on their liberal views on apartheid, find their lives turned around when a revolution puts their servant, July, in charge of their lives and their fates. How they confront this challenge provides the plot in Gordimer's tough take on the appalling realities of apartheid, and on the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Burgers Daughter more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist 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. Her father's death in prison leaves Rosa Burger alone to explore the intricacies of what it actually means to be Burger's daughter. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Telling Tales more books like this by Nadine Gordimer (Editor) add to wishlist All proceeds from this anthology will go to the Treatment Action Campaign, a non-profit organization whose funds are used entirely for the treatment and support of people suffering from HIV and AIDS. The collection features Woody Allen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Arthur Miller, Paul Theroux and John Updike. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Pickup more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist A young woman trying to escape her upper-class but stifling life gets involved with the garage mechanic who fixes her car, an Arab who is also an illegal immigrant. The question becomes: who is using whom? Or is this a love story in which no one is using anyone? THE PICKUP was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize and was New York Times Notable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.25! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories more books like this by Ben Okri, Nadine Gordimer (Adapted by), C L Innes add to wishlist This anthology represents the talent and scope to be found in contemporary African writing. It contains both new and previously published stories by such authors as Nadine Gordimer, Ben Okri, Kojo Laing, Mia Couto and Moyez Vassanji. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.97! \| SVS
6	A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman more books like this by Wadad Markdisi Cortas, Wadad Al-Maqdisi Qirtas, Nadine Gordimer (Foreword by) add to wishlist Written with eloquence, compassion, and fierce intelligence, The World I Loved takes us on an unforgettable journey through twentieth-century Lebanon see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	My Son's Story more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist The son in a black family in South Africa spots his father with a white woman--both of them activists in the anti-apartheid cause. This is one of Nadine Gordimer's few novels to deal with the issue of apartheid from the point of view of a black character. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Jump and Other Short Stories more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist Set in London, Mozambique and South Africa, these are stories about the dynamics of family life, the ironies and contradictions of an oppressive racist society in the midst of political upheavel, and the worldwide confusion of human values. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.81! \| SVS
9	Conservationist more books like this by Gordimer add to wishlist Winner of the 1974 Booker-McConnel Prize for Fiction, Gordimer's novel is about a self-professed "conservationist" in South Africa, a wealthy, middle-aged, sexually voracious industrialist and landowner who lives the good life and seeks at all costs to preserve it, and about the guilt and alienation he comes to feel regarding the poor blacks who ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Something Out There more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist Originally published in 1979 as part of a collection of short stories, this is about a white couple and two black revolutionaries in Johannesberg. The story is set in a suburb which is in the grip of rumours of a strange creature said to be roaming among them. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	A World of Strangers more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist Nadine Gordimer's second novel (1958) explores the difficulties and rewards of encounters between blacks and whites in her native South Africa at the height of apartheid. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Gordimer: Selected Stories more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist Like most of Gordimer's short fiction, the stories in this volume are about the various ways--change, acceptance, avoidance--in which individuals cope with the society they live in. see all copies from $1.99!
13 view cover	A Guest of Honour more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist Larger in scope than her earlier work, this long novel is set against the minutely observed background of an unnamed, newly independent African country. The hero, a white liberal named James Bray, returns from exile and is disillusioned by the corruption and greed of the postcolonial government; when he speaks out, he is killed. The novel is often ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Echoes of an Autobiography more books like this by Naguib Mahfouz, Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator), Nadine Gordimer (Foreword by) add to wishlist Readers of Mahfouz's fiction will find many of the same themes that run through his fiction in this autobiography--his preoccupation with old age, death and life's transitory moments--all treated with his characteristic wry good humor. Also of special interest is a number of passages that he devotes to the aphoristic sayings of the traditional ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
15 view cover	Sport of Nature more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist This novel is about Hellela, a Jewish South African girl abandoned by her parents. Stretching from the turbulent 1960s this book goes from the beaches of West Africa to the slums of London, and from Washington to the presidential palace of an African nation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Get a Life more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist In this novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, a man's treatment for cancer leads to an emotional upheaval for himself and his family. Having spent his career defending the earth against pollution, ecologist Paul Bannerman himself becomes a contaminant when his thyroid cancer requires radiation therapy. Unwilling to expose his young ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Writing and Being more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures were delivered at Harvard in 1994. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Selected stories more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist In these stories, selected by Gordimer herself, characters from every corner of society come to life, along with the South African landscape they inhabit. The stories have a strong focus on racial issues, yet their implications are universal. The stories are National Curriculum recommended reading. see all copies from $5.00! signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist In this collection of new stories, Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the fearless insight that is the hallmark of her writing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
20 view cover	Loot and Other Stories more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist Ten stories by Nadine Gordimer, including "Mission Statement," which is about the ghosts of colonialism, and "Homage," in which an assassin visits the grave of his victim. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist Selected from over 160 titles this is an anthology of non-fiction writings by one of South Africa's most respected writers and author of the Booker Prizewinner "The Conservationist". She also wrote "Burger's Daughter", "July's People" and "A Sport of Nature". The editor of this collection explains in his introduction that the essays illustrate the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22	The Essential Gesture more books like this by Nadine Gordimer, Nadine Cordimer, Stephen Clingman (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of 23 essays on South Africa, from the 1950s to the 1980s, are divided into three parts: A Writer in South Africa (about the experience of living under a repugnant political regime), A Writer in Africa (travel pieces), and Living in the Interregnum (which vividly illuminates the writer's role in a society that practices apartheid ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.69! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Pandemic: Facing AIDS more books like this by Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, Nadine Gordimer, Rory Kennedy add to wishlist "PANDEMIC" presents a 20-year retrospective of AIDS through the work of over 75 artists from 50 nations. These powerful images in the photographic medium document the lives and harsh realities of people living with AIDS. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.10!
24 view cover	None to Accompany Me more books like this by Nadine Gordimer add to wishlist 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, so she discovers a need to reconstruct her own life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Literary Conversations Series more books like this by Nancy T Bazin (Editor), Nadine Gordimer, Marilyn D Seymour (Editor) add to wishlist Conversations with Nadine Gordimer edited by Nancy Topping Bazin and Marilyn Dallman Seymour Nadine Gordimer is one of the contemporary world's most admired writers of novels and short stories. This volume collects three decades of her interviews. In them she presents her attitudes toward her art and its interconnection with the oppressive, ... see all copies from $3.05! new only from $7.50! \| SVS

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