Gordimer Nadine Boeken

Het geordende bestaan van een blank Zuid-Afrikaans echtpaar van middelbare leeftijd verandert voorgoed als hun zoon de vriend doodschiet die hij kort daarvoor met zijn vriendin betrapte.

De blanke Steve en zwarte Jabulile zijn een droompaar. Ze waren kameraden in de strijd tegen apartheid en zijn nu getrouwd, met twee kinderen en een mooi huis in een buitenwijk van Johannesburg. Maar de dilemma’s waar Zuid-Afrika mee kampt, hebben ook hun weerslag op het gelukkige gezinsleven: Jabu komt onder druk te staan wanneer zij als beginnend advocaat slachtoffers van corruptie en verkrachtingen moet verdedigen en Steve neemt na een wild bezoek aan Londen op eigen houtje het besluit om met het gezin naar Australië te emigreren. Is hun liefde bestand tegen de erfenissen uit het verleden?

Keuze van verhalen van buitenlandse auteurs uit het fonds van de uitgeverijen Bert Bakker en Prometheus.

A profoundly moving book that combines the superb writings fo Gordimer and the stark, powerful photogrpahs fo Goldblatt to show us, in the details of individual lives, the great human damage wrought by apartheid. Black-and-white photographs.----------This work is another contribution to the growing pictorial record of apartheid in South Africa, and like some earlier series of black-and-white photographs it is haunted with pathos and irony. Like the pictures from Peter Magubane's Magubane's South Africa ( LJ 5/15/78), Goldblatt's images span 35 years and qualify as works of art in their own right. Complementing the harsh reality represented by the photographs are excerpts from the writings of South African novelist Gordimer, which in their way are as telling as the scholarly pieces that accompany South Africa, the Cordoned Heart , edited by Omar Badsha ( LJ 5/15/86), a work to which Goldblatt also contributed. Despite the photographic essays already available, libraries may still find this handsome book worth acquiring. Paul H. Thomas, Hoover Inst. Lib., Stanford, Cal.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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.

Albert Memmi's classic work stands as one of the most powerful and psychologically penetrating studies of colonial oppression ever written. Dissecting the minds of both the oppressor and the oppressed, Memmi reveals truths about the colonial situation and struggle that are as relevant today as they were five decades ago.Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer's new critical Introduction draws Memmi into the 21st century by reflecting on his achievements and highlighting his omissions. In doing so she opens new avenues of enquiry for scholars and students, and exposes new directions for activists seeking a more just world order in our neo-colonial age.With the fires of war, terrorism and protest burning around the globe, never has Memmi's work been such relevant and necessary reading.

Nadine Gordimer's first novel, published in 1953, tells the story of Helen Shaw, daughter of white middle-class parents in a small gold-mining town in South Africa. As Helen comes of age, so does her awareness grow of the African life around her. Her involvement, as a bohemian student, with young blacks leads her into complex relationships of emotion and action in a culture of dissension.