Nadine Gordimer’s interracial love story between a young Arab man and a white South African woman explores themes of race, class, identity and culture
Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, South Africa. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991
Her many novels include The Conservationist, joint winner of the Booker Prize, Get a Life, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People, My Son’s Story and The Pickup. Her final novel was No Time Like the Present, published in 2012. Her collections of short stories include The Soft Voice of the Serpent, Something Out There, Jump, Loot and Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black. In 2010 her nonfiction writings were collected in Telling Times and a substantial selection of her stories was published in Life Times. She died in 2014.
The Conservationist
Winner of The Booker Prize 1974
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- Jonathan Cape
Nadine Gordimer paints a complex portrait of dangerously deluded and wilfully ignorant privilege, set in South Africa during the time of Apartheid
Other nominated books
The drastic consequences of a life-saving treatment force a man to question everything he knows, in Nadine Gordimer’s absorbing novel
