Book description
I>in 1954, in which she autobiographically traces her emergence as a
brilliant, young writer in a racist country, to her pioneering role in
recognising the greatest African and European writers of her generation,
to her truly, courageous stance in supporting Nelson Mandela and other
members of the ANC during their years of imprisonment. Given that
Gordimer will never write an autobiography,
Telling Times
is an important document of twentieth-century social and political
history, told through the voice of one of its greatest literary
figures.I> collects together all her non-fiction for the first time,
spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of colonial rule in
South Africa, to the long, brutal fight to overthrow South Africa's
apartheid regime and to her leadership role over the last 20 years in
confronting the dangers of AIDS, globalisation, and ethnic violence. The
range of this book is staggering, from Gordimer's first piece in The
New Yorker <
Nadine Gordimer's life reflects the true spirit of
the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon.
Telling 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
I>in 1954, in which she autobiographically traces
her emergence as a brilliant, young writer in a racist country, to
her pioneering role in recognising the greatest African and
European writers of her generation, to her truly, courageous
stance in supporting Nelson Mandela and other members of the ANC
during their years of imprisonment. Given that Gordimer will never
write an autobiography, Telling Times is an important
document of twentieth-century social and political history, told
through the voice of one of its greatest literary
figures.
I> collects together all her non-fiction for the
first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of
colonial rule in South Africa, to the long, brutal fight to overthrow
South Africa's apartheid regime and to her leadership role over the
last 20 years in confronting the dangers of AIDS, globalisation, and
ethnic violence. The range of this book is staggering, from Gordimer's
first piece in The New Yorker <Nadine Gordimer's life
reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist,
political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times<
