When Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, is diagnosed with cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive, his fragile existence makes him question his life. Then when Paul moves in with his parents to protect his wife and young son from radiation, the strange nature of his condition leads his mother to face her own past.
A woman gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband's cello; and a wife reads her husband's mood by the scent in the nape of his neck. This book illustrates the show downs, standoffs and highlights of human intimacy while penetrating the nuances of immigration, national identity and race.
A novel written by the Booker Prize-winning author.
A collection of stories written by the South African Nobel laureate.
Telling Times collects together all of Nadine Gordimer's non-fiction in one volume that bears witness to her moral and political engagement in many of the most crucial issues of the last half-century.
Includes stories that focus on racial issues.
Cel mai nou roman al Nadinei Gordimer, Pretul vietii, a fost scris la scurta vreme dupa disparitia sotului ei, Reinhold Cassirer si poarta amprenta unor experiente personale dar continua, totodata, pasiunea scriitoarei pentru explorarea prezentei politicului in viata de zi cu zi.Protagonistul, Paul Bannerman, este un ecologist sud-african, care incearca sa impiedice construirea unui reactor nuclear, dar ironia sortii face ca, la un moment dat, dupa ce i se confirma diagnosticul de cancer...
Este primul roman al celebrei autoare din Republica Sud-Africana, laureata a Premiului Nobel pentru literatura care intra, in sfarsit, pe piata cartii din Romania. Ceea ce pare, la inceput, o simpla aventura intre o tanara alba dintr-o familie foarte buna si mecanicul arab pe care aceasta l-a "agatat" se transforma, treptat, intr-o poveste de dragoste a carei profunzime pare sa-i surprinda chiar si pe protagonisti. O vreme, relatia pare sa evolueze normal si, eventual, sa se...
The collected stories of one of the world's great living writers are published in one volume for the first time
A tale of bitterness and division in South Africa.