Nadine Gordimer

Broschiertes Buch

Life Times

Stories 1952-2007

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Nadine Gordimer's many novels include The Conservationist, joint winner of the Booker Prize, Get A Life, Burger's Daughter, July's People, My Son's Story and The Pickup. Her collections of short stories include The Soft Voice of the Serpent, Something Out There, Jump, Loot and, most recently, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black. She has also collected and edited Telling Tales, a story anthology published in fourteen languages whose royalties go to HIV/AIDS organisations. In 2010 her nonfiction writings were collected in Telling Times and a substantial selection of her stories was published in Life Times. Her most recent novel was No Time Like the Present, published in 2012. Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. She lived in South Africa until she died in 2014.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 34077
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 131mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780747596189
• ISBN-10: 0747596182
• Artikelnr.: 33228411

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'Nadine Gordimer is one of the best story-writers in English today.' Observer