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A Soldier's Embrace

Nadine Gordimer

Twelve stories explore love and social boundaries in South Africa, where even private relationships bear the pressures of racial division.

Literary fiction

A Sport of Nature

Nadine Gordimer

Contemporary African politics and personal choices intertwine in a novel shaped by Nadine Gordimer's searching attention to South African life.

Literary fiction

Burger's Daughter

Nadine Gordimer

An activist's daughter confronts her father's political legacy while seeking a life of her own in a suspicious and violent society.

Literary fiction

July's People

Nadine Gordimer

A white family flees an imagined civil war to their servant's village, where survival transforms the familiar rules of power.

Literary fiction

My Son's Story

Nadine Gordimer

A schoolboy discovers his father's affair and enters a world where family secrets cannot be separated from the struggle against apartheid.

Literary fiction

Screen adaptation

Not for Publication

Nadine Gordimer

Sixteen stories expose the tensions beneath private lives as racial exclusion and growing resistance unsettle the assumptions of white society.

Literary fiction

Occasion for Loving

Nadine Gordimer

An interracial affair disrupts a Johannesburg household, forcing intimate loyalties into confrontation with apartheid's laws and social boundaries.

Literary fiction

Screen adaptation

Selected Short Stories

Nadine Gordimer

Love, betrayal and displacement enter ordinary lives in selected stories that bring South Africa's political conflicts into intimate focus.

Short stories

Something Out There

Nadine Gordimer

Political sabotage and a mysterious suburban creature converge in stories that unsettle the comfortable surfaces of South African life.

Literary fiction

The Conservationist

Nadine Gordimer

A wealthy businessman buys a farm, only to discover that land and people resist the ownership he takes for granted.

Literary fiction

The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics, Places

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer considers the writer's responsibilities through essays where personal experience meets South Africa's struggle against apartheid.

Essays

The Lying Days

Nadine Gordimer

Growing up in a sheltered mining-town family, Helen Shaw gradually discovers the South African realities her childhood has kept outside.

Literary fiction

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