Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and committed body of work won her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. In the opinion of the Academy: ‘Through her magnificent epic writing she has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity.’ Gordimer has said that while novelists take the reader by the hand developing ‘a consistency of relationship that does not and cannot convey the quality of human life, where contact is more like the flash of fireflies, in and out, now here, now there, in darkness. Short-story writers see by the light of the flash; theirs is the only thing one can be sure of – the present moment.’ Now, for the first time, the best of her stories are published in one volume. Spanning six decades the thirty-eight stories are drawn from her ten published collections: The Soft Voice of the Serpent Six Feet of the Country Not For Publication Livingstone’s Companions Friday’s Footprint A Soldier’s Embrace Something Out There Jump Loot Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
Life Times - Stories 1952-2007
Nadine Gordimer
Bloomsbury Publishing
2010
560 páginas
18h 40m
ISBN-13: 9780747592631
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Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer, escritora sul-africana, nascida em Joanesburgo, foi autora de mais de 30 livros — em sua maioria, crônicas sobre a deterioração social que afetou seu país durante o regime do apartheid. Desde seu romance de estréia, <i>The Lying Days</i> (1953), até <i>The Conservationist</i> (1974), vencedora do Booker Prize, dedicou-se a dramatizar as difíceis escolhas morais surgidas numa sociedade marcada pela segregação racial. Recebeu o Nobel de Literatura de 1991 e, mais recentemente, a Legião da Honra, na França. Explorou os problemas que assolam seu país em livros como <i>O engate</i> (2004) e <i>Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black</i> (2007), uma coletânea de contos. Morreu em 2014, aos 90 anos.
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