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No Time Like the Present
Nadine Gordimer
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Description for No Time Like the Present
Paperback. A majestic novel about post-Independence South Africa by the Nobel laureate and Booker Prize winner Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 352. 432 pages. A majestic novel about post-Independence South Africa by the Nobel laureate and Booker Prize winner. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 202 x 137 x 26. Weight: 298.
Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each new work, she attacks - with a clear-eyed lack of sentimentality, and an understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul - the inextricable link between personal life and political, communal history. The revelation of this theme in each new work, not only in her homeland South Africa, but the twenty-first century world, is evidence of her literary genius: in the sharpness of her psychological insights, the stark beauty of her language, the complexity of her characters and the difficult choices with which they are faced. ... Read more
Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each new work, she attacks - with a clear-eyed lack of sentimentality, and an understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul - the inextricable link between personal life and political, communal history. The revelation of this theme in each new work, not only in her homeland South Africa, but the twenty-first century world, is evidence of her literary genius: in the sharpness of her psychological insights, the stark beauty of her language, the complexity of her characters and the difficult choices with which they are faced. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408831267
SKU
V9781408831267
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About Nadine Gordimer
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 ... Read more
Reviews for No Time Like the Present
Gordimer fashions a grand, state-of-her-nation novel about South Africa from Presidents Mandela to Zuma ... A mightily serious and impressive book
Daily Mail
Nadine Gordimer is a towering figure in South African literature, and, at 88, remains a vital, productive force
Metro
At best her free-style, high-velocity storytelling [Gordimer] delivers a visceral immediacy and intensity that ... Read more
Daily Mail
Nadine Gordimer is a towering figure in South African literature, and, at 88, remains a vital, productive force
Metro
At best her free-style, high-velocity storytelling [Gordimer] delivers a visceral immediacy and intensity that ... Read more