Book description
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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.
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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.'
'Nadine Gordimer is one of the best story-writers in English today.'
Observer 'Gordimer's stark sentences and emotional depth make most
modern fiction seem trivial.' The Times 'Gordimer has undoubtedly become
one of the World's Great Writers ... her rootedness in a political time,
place and faith has never dimmed her complex gifts as an artist.'
Independent >
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.
>
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.'
