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
Get a Life
Written by Nadine Gordimer
- Longlisted
- The Man Booker Prize 2006
- Published by Bloomsbury
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The drastic consequences of a life-saving treatment force a man to question everything he knows, in Nadine Gordimer’s absorbing novel
When an ecologist in Africa is diagnosed with cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive, his suddenly fragile existence makes him question his life for the first time. He is especially struck by the contradictions between his work as a conservationist and that of his wife, an advertising agency executive. When Paul moves in with his parents to protect his wife and young son from radiation, the strange nature of his condition leads his mother to face her own past.
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, South Africa. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991
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Nadine Gordimer paints a complex portrait of dangerously deluded and wilfully ignorant privilege, set in South Africa during the time of Apartheid