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No time like the present / Nadine Gordimer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.Description: 421 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781408831267
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.914 23
Summary: At the heart of the story is an interracial couple, Steve and Jabuli le, living in a newly - tentatively - free South Africa, he a universit y lecturer she a lawyer, both comrades in the Struggle and now parents of children born in freedom.There is nothing so extraordinary about the ir lives, and yet, in telling their story, and the stories of their fri ends and families, Gordimer manages to capture the tortured, fragmented essence of a nation struggling to define itself in the post-apartheid world of Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. The subject is contemporary, but G ordimer's treatment is, as ever, timeless.
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Books - Open Access Books - Open Access MISR Library - Open Shelves 823.914 GOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 001268852

At the heart of the story is an interracial couple, Steve and Jabuli le, living in a newly - tentatively - free South Africa, he a universit y lecturer she a lawyer, both comrades in the Struggle and now parents of children born in freedom.There is nothing so extraordinary about the ir lives, and yet, in telling their story, and the stories of their fri ends and families, Gordimer manages to capture the tortured, fragmented essence of a nation struggling to define itself in the post-apartheid world of Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. The subject is contemporary, but G ordimer's treatment is, as ever, timeless.

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