The Late Bourgeois World

ISBN-13: 9781408836002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 160 str.

Nadine Gordimer

Opis

Liz Van Den Sandt's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for an act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues. Now Liz has been asked to perform a service for the Black Nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself. Can she take the risk?

Recenzje

Superb ... [Nadine] Gordimer's persuasiveness is achieved with one of the lightest and yet most inexorable touches you will find in contemporary writing New York Times

O autorze

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.