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July's people
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Nadine Gordimer |
When South Africa is riven by war and the Smales, a white couple, take refuge in the village of their former servant July, their relationships are completely transformed. |
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Burger's daughter
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Nadine Gordimer |
Par une romancière sud-africaine de talent, une plongée dans l'enfer quotidien - violence et suspicion - du racisme. L'héroïne est la fille d'un médecin blanc, condamné à la prison à vie, pour avoir … |
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Burn This Book
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Paul Auster,Ed Park,Nadine Gordimer,Russell Banks,Salman Rushdie,John Updike,Francine Prose,Toni Morrison,David Grossman,Pico Iyer,Orhan Pamuk |
Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see th… |
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Great Short Stories of the World
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Максим Горький,Colette,Frank O'Connor,Max Aub,Henry Lawson,Albert Camus,Corrado Alvaro,Robert Benchley,H. G. Wells,Isak Dinesen,Ernest Hemingway,Nigel Balchin,Sholem Aleichem,Katherine Anne Porter,Santha Rama Rau,Rabindranath Tagore,Mark Twain,Dorothy Parker,Leo Kennedy,Joseph Conrad,Антон Павлович Чехов,Dorothy L. Sayers,Aldous Huxley,David Herbert Lawrence,Graham Greene,Nadine Gordimer,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,Alberto Moravia,O. Henry,Rumer Godden,John O'Hara,Truman Capote,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Gabrielle Roy,Unknown,Sally Benson,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Doris Lessing,Wallace Stegner,Guy de Maupassat,James Joyce,Luigi Pirandello,Eudora Welty,William Somerset Maugham,Mikhail Zoshchenko,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Hernando Tellez,Pearl S. Buck,Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Montague Rhodes James,Paul Horgan,Saki,Thomas Head Raddall,Katherine Mansfield,Bertolt Brecht,Josh Gregory,Irwin Shaw,Marcel Aymé,Jean Stafford,Lilika Nakos,S. J. Perelman,Damon Runyon,Anatole France,Machado de Assis,Jessamyn West,Hjalmar Söderberg |
The leader of the people / John Steinbeck
Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham
Vanka / Anton Chekhov
The happy prince / Oscar Wilde
The old demon / Pearl S. Buck
The sailor-boy's tale / Isak … |
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No time like the present
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Nadine Gordimer |
At the heart of the story is an interracial couple, Steve and Jabulile, living in a newly - tentatively - free South Africa, he a university lecturer she a lawyer, both comrades in the Struggle and n… |
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Life times
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Nadine Gordimer |
A collection of short fictional works offers insight into the author's use of rich language to convey themes ranging from politics and sexuality to race and family life, in a volume that includes suc… |
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No time like the present
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Nadine Gordimer |
"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… |
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Telling tales
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Nadine Gordimer |
"Rarely have world writers of such variety and distinction appeared together in the same anthology. Their stories capture the range of emotions and situations of our human universe: tragedy, comedy, … |
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Great Conversations 2
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René Descartes,Frank O'Connor,Max Planck,Nadine Gordimer,Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский,Raymond Carver,Anonymous,Николай Васильевич Гоголь,J. M. Synge,John Rawls,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,Mike Levine,Christina Georgina Rosetti,Daniel Born,John Dunne,Friedrich A. Hayek |
The story of Samson, Judges 13-16 / Anonymous
Selected poems / John Dunne
Meditations on first philosophy / René Descartes
The nose / Nikolai Gogol
Grand Inquisitor / Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009
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Anthony Doerr,Marisa Silver,A. S. Byatt,Nadine Gordimer,Miller, L. E.,Laura Furman,Ha Jin,Graham Joyce,Tim O'Brien,Junot Díaz,Karen Brown,Judy Troy,Paul Yoon,John Burnside,Andrew Sean Greer,Alistair Morgan,Roger Nash,Paul Theroux,Viet Dinh,Caitlin Horrocks,Kristen Sundberg Lundstrum,E V Slate,Mohan Sikka,Manuel Muñoz |
An ordinary soldier of the queen / Graham Joyce
The nursery / Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
Purple bamboo park / E.V. Slate
The bell ringer / John Burnside
Uncle Musto takes a mistress / Mohan Sikka
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Jump and other stories
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Nadine Gordimer |
In this book, sixteen stories ranging from the dynamics of family life to the worldwide confusion of human values, Nadine Gordimer gives us access to lives in places as far apart as suburban London, … |
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No time like the present
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Nadine Gordimer |
At the heart of this story is an interracial couple, Steven and Jabulile, living in a 'free' South Africa. He is a university lecturer and she is a lawyer, both comrades in the Struggle and now paren… |
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Beethoven was one-sixteenth black and other stories
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Nadine Gordimer |
Nadine Gordimer moves seamlessly between personal and political worlds in this new collection, including the story of a woman who gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband's cello. |
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Get a life
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Nadine Gordimer |
Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, believes he controls the trajectory of his life with the markers of vocation and marriage. But when he is diagnosed with thyroid cancer, he receives treatment … |
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A sport of nature
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Nadine Gordimer |
Abandoned by her mother, Hillela is left to be raised by her two aunts in South Africa. At Olga's she might have acquired a taste for antiques and a style of dress to please a suitable husband. At Pa… |
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Histoire de mon fils
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Nadine Gordimer |
L'histoire d'une passion, d'un amour entre un homme et deux femmes, entre un père et son fils, drame intime qui se noue à l'histoire tragique de l'Afrique du Sud. |
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Het huiswapen
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Nadine Gordimer |
Oorspr. titel: The House Gun. - Felix Licensing. - 1998.
Het geordende bestaan van een blank Zuid-Afrikaans echtpaar van middelbare leeftijd verandert voorgoed als hun zoon de vriend doodschiet die … |
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Die Hauswaffe
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Nadine Gordimer |
Der Sohn weißer wohlhabender Bürger in Südafrika wird des Mordes an seinem Freund verdächtigt und zu einer langen Haftstrafe verurteilt. Unter der Last der beängstigenden Situation werden der Zusamme… |
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Un Caprice de la nature
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Nadine Gordimer |
Une Sud-Africaine blanche épouse un jeune révolutionnaire noir. Son assassinat la précipite dans l'engagement politique, la lutte contre l'apartheid, et la contraint à l'exil. Style réaliste. Ton cha… |
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