No time like the present

By Nadine Gordimer

Subjects: Marriage, Domestic fiction, Apartheid, Liberty, Families, Interracial marriage, Interpersonal relations, Husband and wife, Fiction, Social conditions, Race relations

Description: "Gordimer trains her keen eye on Steve and Jabulile, an interracial couple living in a newly, tentatively, free South Africa. They have a daughter, Sindiswa; they move to the suburbs; Steve becomes a lecturer at a university; Jabulile trains to become a lawyer; there is another child, a boy this time. There is nothing so extraordinary about their lives, and yet, in telling their story and the stories of their friends and families, Gordimer manages to capture the tortured, fragmented essence of a nation struggling to define itself post-apartheid."--Publisher's website.