Nadine Gordimer

Esta selección de relatos realizada por la propia autora, personalidad activa en la lucha antiapartheid, es reflejo vivo de la evolución de las actitudes sociales en Á

"Tredici racconti. Tredici frammenti di vite. Storie d'amore. Gli incontri veri o immaginati dell'autrice con alcuni grandi scrittori del ventesimo secolo. La storia che da il titolo alla raccolta, vede un professore di biologia di Johannesburg ripercorrere la propria storia familiare. Al centro un tema paradossale e significativo: se un tempo tutti desideravano avere almeno una goccia di sangue bianco nelle vene, oggi vale l'esatto contrario, e avere almeno un sedicesimo di sangue di colore e raccomandato quasi si trattasse di un indizio di ""nobilta sociale"". Con mano sicura Gordimer indaga fra le pieghe dei sentimenti e del rapporto di coppia: attraverso i sensi (udito, olfatto) i diversi protagonisti scoprono di essere stati traditi dal partner. "

Paul Bannerman crede di avere l'assoluto controllo sulla propria vita. La suaesistenza cambia radicalmente quando gli viene diagnosticato un cancro allatiroide... Un romanzo denso, rapido, emozionante, in cui sono toccati tutti itemi piu cari alla Gordimer: le relazioni famigliari, quelle tra bianchi eneri nel Sudafrica, la poverta, l'Aids, il rapporto tra progresso economico esalvaguardia della natura.

Una sera di gennaio del 1996 qualcuno bussa alla porta di Harald e Claudia Lindgard per annunciare una terribile notizia: Duncan, il loro unico figlio, e stato arrestato con l'accusa di avere ucciso un amico che ha trovato a letto con la propria ragazza. Che genere di lealta un padre e una madre devono a un figlio che ha compiuto l'inimmaginabile? Come ha potuto questi non riconoscere l'intangibilita della vita umana? Cosa hanno fatto per influenzare il suo carattere? Dove hanno sbagliato? L'autrice descrive l'itinerario caotico che devono percorrere i genitori per ricostruisi un'immagine del figlio e per riappropriarsi di una parte del suo destino, seguendolo giorno dopo giorno nel processo che svelera loro tratti ignoti di Duncan.

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. Una mujer evalúa su sitación matrimonial por el tono del violonchelo de su marido: y una esposa lee el humor de su esposo por el aroma que despide su nuca. Esta obra ilustra algunas de las dificultades, altibajos y momentos de gloria de la intimidad humana, a la vez que penetra en las sutilezas de conceptos como la inmigración, la identidad nacional y la raza.

A startling new work from a Nobel prize-winning author: ten short stories, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. In the title story an earthquake exposes both an ocean bed strewn with treasure among the dead, and the avarice of the town's survivors. In 'The Diamond Mine' a woman remembers her first, passionately erotic experience, hidden, in the company of her parents, with a soldier who may not be alive to remember her. The anopheles mosquito brings death to the saunas and other playgrounds of the developed with in 'The Emissary'. In 'Karma', Gordimer's inventiveness knows no bounds: in five returns to the earthly life, taking on different ages and genders, a disembodied narrator testifies to unfinished business - critically, wittily - and questions the nature of existence.

Along with making music, the art of storytelling is the oldest form of enchantment as entertainment. The twenty-one stories in this anthology are written in different 'voices' - vividly individual styles - and all have come together to bring the joy of reading to whoever takes up this remarkable collection. All twenty-one writers have given their stories without any fee or royalty. The publishers of each edition in each country where the anthology is published have produced the book without receiving any profit or royalty. Musicians have given their talents for the benefit of the forty million men, women and children infected with HIV and AIDS worldwide. These writers have decided that they too wanted to contribute in some way to the fight against the pandemic disease from which no country, no individual, is safely isolated.

Els protagonistes de Seducció no semblen pas fets l'un per l'altre. Julie és una noia blanca, filla rebel d'un home de negocis sud-africà. Abdu, en canvi,

Stunning novel set in South Africa about forbidden love by the Nobel Prize-winning writer

Nadine Gordimer's life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. This title collects together some of her non-fiction, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of colonial rule in South Africa, to the long, brutal fight to overthrow South Africa's apartheid regime. Nadine Gordimer's life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. "Telling Times" collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of colonial rule in South Africa, to the long, brutal fight to overthrow South Africa's apartheid regime and to her leadership role over the last 20 years in confronting the dangers of AIDS, globalisation, and ethnic violence. The range of this book is staggering, from Gordimer's first piece in "The New Yorker" in 1954, in which she autobiographically traces her emergence as a brilliant, young writer in a racist country, to her pioneering role in recognising the greatest African and European writers of her generation, to her truly, courageous stance in supporting Nelson Mandela and other members of the ANC during their years of imprisonment. Given that Gordimer will never write an autobiography, "Telling Times" is an important document of twentieth-century social and political history, told through the voice of one of its greatest literary figures.

Una avería en el coche de Julie Summer, un taller de reparaciones donde trabaja Abdu: un encuentro insólito propiciado por el azar. Ella es una joven blanca, independiente, de buena familia, y con ideas progesistas. Él procede de un país árabe y cree que el progreso se halla muy lejos de su lugar de origen. La relación entre Julie y Abdu se va estrechandok continúa ante el asombro de los amigos de ella, hasta que un día Abdu debe marcharse porque sus papeles no están en regla.

A woman gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband's cello; a wife reads her husband's mood by the scent in the nape of his neck; a newly emigrated couple are divided by visual obsession, he with his native Budapest, she with South African suburbia. There is lively conversation amongst recently departed literary luminaries in the Chinese restaurant of 'Dreaming of the Dead', and a widow seeks an incarnation of her husband that she never knew in life when she meets his former gay lover in 'Allesverloren'. In 'A Frivolous Woman', an old woman compromises not just her own, but others' safety escaping from war-time Germany, while the title story illuminates a new discrimination, where people seek to claim - not hide - a trace of 'the tar brush'. Nadine Gordimer moves seamlessly between personal and political worlds in this magnificent new collection of stories, ironic, passionate, humorous, a reminder to her countless admirers, and a taste for the uninitiated, of her enduring, ever fresh imaginative power.