None to Accompany Me
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (560 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374222975 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 324 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly The latest novel from Nobel Prize-winner Gordimer about private and public life among South Africa's blacks and whites begins rather slowly, but it includes so many brilliant moves of plot and character, and such emotionally rending scenes and moments, that by the end a reader understands again what a novel can do, and why other genres can't do it: narrate personal and political history on a scale that is both scrupulously detailed and enormous. Here Gordimer narrates with toughness, yet also tenderly, offering the domestic and
A Star in Transit I read this novel for my Queer Theory class at the University of Cape Town. Nothing less of a Nobel Laureate's standards. Breath-taking, radical and at once plainly banal. An intriguing juxtaposition of experience. It never arrives, like in transit, which is what makes its representation of 90s South Africa all the more convincing.. Thought-provoking but not always compelling I do not know quite what to make of Nadine Gordimer's 199Thought-provoking but not always compelling Rick Hunter I do not know quite what to make of Nadine Gordimer's 1994 novel None to Accompany Me. Gordimer, past winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, writes tellingly of her native South Africa, and of the uneasy relations between blacks and whites during the very recent past. This book tells the story of Vera, a middle-aged married white woman who is employed as a lawyer with a "liberal" organization dedicated to obtaining housing and land for the black majority. While Vera has "relationships" with many in the book, both black and white - in. novel None to Accompany Me. Gordimer, past winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, writes tellingly of her native South Africa, and of the uneasy relations between blacks and whites during the very recent past. This book tells the story of Vera, a middle-aged married white woman who is employed as a lawyer with a "liberal" organization dedicated to obtaining housing and land for the black majority. While Vera has "relationships" with many in the book, both black and white - in. Eric Anderson said ReInventing Notions of National Identity. Nadine Gordimer's novel None to Accompany Me was published in the same year of South Africa's first Democratic election. The fact that these events coincided is an important influence on interpretations of the novel because of the personal and political significance of the event in relation to Gordimer. A preoccupation with the conflicting political parties reverberates in the consciousness of the South African characters who populate the novel because of the radical nature of this changing government. The characters are captured in a s
60,000 first printing.. In the turmoil immediately preceding South America's passing of majority rule, a lawyer who represents blacks and a formerly exiled family struggle with life changes. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of Jump and Other Stories