Book description
In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable
characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing
civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for
better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses
circle their lodge.
Jump
is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa
under apartheid. 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,
The Pickup
and, most recently, No Time Like the Present
. 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
. Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
She lives in South Africa.
