Надин Гордимер - циклы книг | Бумажные издания

Henry Lawson, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe are respectively Australian, Caribbean, South African and Nigerian, yet they all write in English. The ‘English’ literature of the ex-colonies is proving to be the most interesting and innovative of our times: this volume offers a significant example of its vitality and originality. As Salman Rushdi said, ‘the Empire writes back’.

Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.

В сборник вошли 18 рассказов писательницы.

Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black

В сборнике представлены лучшие рассказы лауреата Нобелевской премии по литературе Н. Гордимер. Тематически они охватывают весь спектр ее творчества. И гневно-обличительные, и бытописательные новеллы полны боли, любви и ненависти, прожектором выхватывая из мрака южноафриканской жизни наиболее характерные ее стороны. Н. Гордимер всегда свойственны подлинная лиричность и утонченный психологизм, в свете которых еще контрастнее встает перед нами отвратительное лицо апартеида.

Творчество Надин Гордимер, южноафриканской писательницы с поистине мировой славой, претерпело значительную эволюцию. Всегда свойственную ей необыкновенную тонкость, даже деликатность письма дополнила решительная прямота в изображении борьбы. И конечно же, с годами Надин Гордимер стала глубже, мудрее и, может быть, даже человечнее, хотя человечность всегда была одним из преобладающих свойств ее характера.
В «Избранное» входит повесть «Где-то совсем близко» о борьбе подпольщиков Южной Африки против расистского режима и многочисленные рассказы, затрагивающие самые разные стороны жизни: социальное и расовое неравенство, любовь, человеческие взаимоотношения.

When Will skips school to slip off to a movie theater near Johannesburg, he is shocked to see his father. An ordinary mishap, but his father is no ordinary man. He is a "colored" and revered anti-apartheid hero, and his female companion is a white activist fiercely dedicated to the cause. As Will struggles with confusion and bitterness, My Son's Story unravels the consequences of one man's infidelity as a new South Africa violently emerges from the apartheid. "Captures with convincing detail the ecstatic rewards and terrifying costs of revolutionary politics...Delineates with unblinking candor the collision of public and private experience that takes place on a daily basis in South Africa...A fiercely intelligent novel -- one of her most powerful yet." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Gordimer has taken South Africa's tragedy and laid the truth of it in our laps. The story she tell sis lucid and achingly alive."—The Boston Sunday Globe

"Beautifully felt, both in its anger and its compassion...It is so rich as to make praise superfluous, so vital and disturbing as to send us...back into the world with a heightened sense of what life in it might mean."—USA Today

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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.

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.

Творчество американского прозаика Исаака Башевиса Зингера (1904-1991), лауреата Нобелевской премии за 1978 г. представлено одним из самых популярных его романов `Враги. История любви`.

В том включены также лучшие рассказы южноафриканской писательницы Надин Гордимер (род. 1923 г.), Нобелевского лауреата 1991 г.

When Julie Summers's car breaks down on a street in Cape Town, a young Arab mechanic comes to her aid. Their attraction to each other is immediate. Julia, the daughter of a powerful businessman, is trying to escape a privileged background she despises. Abdu, an educated but poor illegal immigrant, is desperate to evade deportation. The consequences of this chance meeting are unpredictable and intense, as each person's notions of the other are overturned. Set in the social mix of post-apartheid South Africa and an unnamed Arab country, Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup "is a masterpiece of creative empathy...a gripping tale of contemporary…

Liz Van Den Sandt's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for a failed act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues.
Now Liz has been asked to perform a direct service for the black nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself. Can she take such a risk in the face of Max's example of the uselessness of such actions? Yet... how can she not?

A house gun, like a house cat: a fact of ordinary life, today. How else can you defend yourself against losing your hi-fi equipment, your TV set and computer? The respected Executive Director of an insurance company, Harald, and his doctor wife, Claudia, are faced with something that could never happen to them: their son, Duncan, has committed murder. What kind of loyalty do a mother and father owe a son who has committed the unimaginable horror? How could he have ignored the sanctity of human life? What have they done to influence his character; how have they failed him? Nadine Gordimer's new novel is a passionate narrative of the complex manifestations of that final test of human relations we call love - between lovers of all kinds, and parents and children. It moves with the restless pace of living itself; if it is a parable of present violence, it is also an affirmation of the will to reconciliation that starts where it must, between individual men and women.