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Product Description: A bold, sweeping story of one girls rise from obscurity to an unpredictable kind of political power abandoned by her mother, hillela is left to be raised by her two aunts in south africa at olgas she might have acquired a taste for antiques and a style of dress to please a suitable husband at paulines she might have developed a social conscience but hillelas betrayal of her position as a surrogate daughter so shocks both families that at seventeen she is cast adrift swiftly and perilously, her life opens out she lives as a footloose girl among political exiles on a beach in east africa, drifting between jobs and lovers, and finally becomes the wife of a black revolutionary personal tragedy is ultimately the catalyst for her political development, leading her into a heroic role in the overthrow of aparthei...read more

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9781850892281, titled "Sport of Nature" | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, June 1, 1988), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Abandoned by her South African family, Hillela drifts through jobs and lovers until tragic events suddenly catapult her into a heroic role in the struggle against apartheid
9780394548029 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1987, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Follows the story of Hillela, a white South African woman, from her self-absorbed adolescence in Johannesburg to her years as the wife of the black president of one of Africa's most progressive nations

Paperback:

9781408840481 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, March 28, 2013, cover price $14.90 | About this edition: A bold, sweeping story of one girls rise from obscurity to an unpredictable kind of political power abandoned by her mother, hillela is left to be raised by her two aunts in south africa at olgas she might have acquired a taste for antiques and a style of dress to please a suitable husband at paulines she might have developed a social conscience but hillelas betrayal of her position as a surrogate daughter so shocks both families that at seventeen she is cast adrift swiftly and perilously, her life opens out she lives as a footloose girl among political exiles on a beach in east africa, drifting between jobs and lovers, and finally becomes the wife of a black revolutionary personal tragedy is ultimately the catalyst for her political development, leading her into a heroic role in the overthrow of apartheid
9780140084702 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1988), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Abandoned by her South African family, Hillela drifts through jobs and lovers until tragic events suddenly catapult her into a heroic role in the struggle against apartheid

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A love affair between a wealthy South African woman and an Arab illegal alien challenges their notions of race, class, and citizenship.

Hardcover:

9780786238484 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 1, 2002), cover price $29.95
9789990220414, titled "Pickup" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 30, 2001, cover price $0.02
9780374232108 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 2001, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A love affair between a wealthy South African woman and an Arab illegal alien challenges their notions of race, class, and citizenship.

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9781250024046 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, February 5, 2013), cover price $17.00
9780142001424 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A love affair between a wealthy South African woman and an Arab illegal alien challenges their notions of race, class, and citizenship.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781841973333 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, November 1, 2002), cover price $58.00 | About this edition: When Julie Summers's car breaks down on a sleazy street in a South African city, a young Arab mechanic named Abdu comes to her aid.

Reinforced:

9780606296090, titled "Pickup" | Demco Media, December 1, 2002, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: A love affair between a wealthy South African woman and an Arab illegal alien challenges their notions of race, class, and citizenship.

Paperback:

9788483834213 | Italian edition edition (Tusquets Editor, October 30, 2012), cover price $14.95

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Product Description: In an extraordinary period immediately before the first non-racial election and the beginning of majority rule in South Africa, Vera Stark, the protagonist of Nadine Gordimer's passionate novel, weaves a ruthless interpretation of her own past into her participation into the present as a lawyer representing blacks in the struggle to reclaim the land...read more

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9780374222970 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In the turmoil immediately preceding South Africa's passing of majority rule, a lawyer who represents Blacks and a formerly exiled family struggle with life changes

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9781250007711 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, July 3, 2012), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In an extraordinary period immediately before the first non-racial election and the beginning of majority rule in South Africa, Vera Stark, the protagonist of Nadine Gordimer's passionate novel, weaves a ruthless interpretation of her own past into her participation into the present as a lawyer representing blacks in the struggle to reclaim the land.
9780140250398 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 1, 1995), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In the turmoil immediately preceding South Africa's passing of majority rule, a lawyer who represents Blacks and a formerly exiled family struggle with life changes

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781561006007 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, October 1, 1994), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In an extraordinary period immediately before the first non-racial election and the beginning of majority rule in South Africa, Vera Stark, the protagonist of Nadine Gordimer's passionate novel, weaves a ruthless interpretation of her own past into her participation in the present as a lawyer representing blacks in the struggle to reclaim the land.
9781561002252 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, January 1, 1994), cover price $73.25 | About this edition: In an extraordinary period immediately before the first non-racial election and the beginning of majority rule in South Africa, Vera Stark, the protagonist of Nadine Gordimer's passionate novel, weaves a ruthless interpretation of her own past into her participation in the present as a lawyer representing blacks in the struggle to reclaim the land.

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A collection of fiction from a Nobel Prize-winning author spans the globe, showing glimpses of human nature with stories about racism, family life, terrorism, love, and fear

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9780816154241 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, August 1, 1992), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: A collection of fiction from a Nobel Prize-winning author spans the globe, showing glimpses of human nature with stories about racism, family life, terrorism, love, and fear
9780374180553 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1991, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of fiction from a distinguished South African author spans the globe, showing glimpses of human nature with stories about racism, family life, terrorism, love, and fear

Paperback:

9781250003768 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, March 27, 2012), cover price $16.00
9789990213966, titled "Jump: And Other Stories" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 30, 1992), cover price $0.02
9780140165340 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 1, 1992), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The Nobel Prize-winning author treats the dynamics of family life, international terrorism, and racial tension in her native South Africa and elsewhere with characteristic moral and emotional force and striking detail in sixteen new stories.

Reinforced:

9780606299985 | Demco Media, July 30, 2004, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: The stories in this collection of fiction take us to places as far apart as suburban London, Mozambique, a mythical island, and South Africa.

Prebinding:

9781417636259 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1992, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: The stories in this collection of fiction take us to places as far apart as suburban London, Mozambique, a mythical island, and South Africa.

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Will, an adolescent black South African, finds his already unsettled relationship with his father further confused by his father's political activism and his affair with a young white woman

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9780374217518 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 10, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Will, an adolescent black South African, finds his already unsettled relationship with his father further confused by his father's political activism and his affair with a young white woman

Paperback:

9781250003751 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, March 27, 2012), cover price $16.00
9780140159752 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1991), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: When Will sees his black activist father at a movie theater with a white woman, it triggers his imagination, and he becomes caught in a painful adolescent confusion swamped with thoughts of family life, sexual jealousy, and political action

Reinforced:

9780606300018 | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: When Will sees his black activist father at a movie theater with a white woman, it triggers his imagination, and he becomes caught in a painful adolescent confusion swamped with thoughts of family life, sexual jealousy, and political action

Prebinding:

9781439508930 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $24.00
9781417636099 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1991, cover price $24.45 | About this edition: When Will sees his black activist father at a movie theater with a white woman, it triggers his imagination, and he becomes caught in a painful adolescent confusion swamped with thoughts of family life, sexual jealousy, and political action

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Product Description: "A perfect example of what literature can give us that history books cannot."―Francine Prose, The New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Steve and Jabulile, once clandestine lovers under a racist law forbidding sexual relations between black and white, are living in a newly free South Africa...read more

Hardcover:

9780374222642 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 27, 2012, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: A sharply observed new novel about post-apartheid South Africa from the Nobel Prize winnerNadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers.
9781408830307 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, March 15, 2012, cover price $31.70 | About this edition: Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers.

Paperback:

9781250024039 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, February 5, 2013), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: "A perfect example of what literature can give us that history books cannot.

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Paperback:

9780143119838 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 25, 2011), cover price $18.00

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Product Description: In The Good Books, over 50 writers—including Yiyun Li, Anne Fadiman, Karen Russell, Gary Shteyngart, David Shields, and many more—choose the works in translation they’d bring to a great global book swap. Also featured: talks and conversation by Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, and other participants in the 1986 PEN Congress...read more

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9781466262331 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 1, 2011, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In The Good Books, over 50 writers—including Yiyun Li, Anne Fadiman, Karen Russell, Gary Shteyngart, David Shields, and many more—choose the works in translation they’d bring to a great global book swap.

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Hardcover:

9780374270537 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 9, 2010, cover price $30.00

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By Nadine Gordimer (foreword by) and Amos Oz

Paperback:

9780691148632 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, August 30, 2010), cover price $14.95

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Product Description: An extraordinary achievement, Telling Times reflects the true spirit of the writer as a literary beacon, moral activist, and political visionary. Never before has Gordimer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, published such a comprehensive collection of her nonfiction...read more

Hardcover:

9780393066289 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 28, 2010), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: An extraordinary achievement, Telling Times reflects the true spirit of the writer as a literary beacon, moral activist, and political visionary.

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Product Description: Life's changes. They happen every day. Some large, some small. A few are very personal. Others impact the world. Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope includes original and inspiring essays that celebrate the glories gained from taking risks, breaking down barriers, and overcoming any obstacles...read more
By Nadine Gordimer (contributor)

Hardcover:

9780813546179 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 20, 2009, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Life's changes.

Paperback:

9780813546186 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 20, 2009, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Life's changes.

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Product Description: La unica idea que Mehring, un industrial cincuenton y aun atractivo para las mujeres, tiene por clara en su vida es la que debe conservar a toda costa su modo de vida. Ni su amante izquierdista, ni su hijo un colegial presuntuoso que lleva pelo largo, consiguen socavar su conviccion de que tiene el derecho inalienable a seguir en posesion de sus bienes...read more

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9788483835456 | Tusquets Editor, March 1, 2009, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: La unica idea que Mehring, un industrial cincuenton y aun atractivo para las mujeres, tiene por clara en su vida es la que debe conservar a toda costa su modo de vida.

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Product Description: A woman gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband's cello; a wife reads her husband's mood by the scent in the nape of his neck; a newly emigrated couple are divided by visual obsession, he with his native Budapest, she with South African suburbia...read more

Hardcover:

9780747592334 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, November 27, 2007, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A woman gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband's cello; a wife reads her husband's mood by the scent in the nape of his neck; a newly emigrated couple are divided by visual obsession, he with his native Budapest, she with South African suburbia.

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Product Description: Hubo un tiempo en que había negros que querían reivindicarse como blancos. Ahora es un blanco quien se reivindica como negro. Y por las mismas razones., escribe Nadine Gordimer en Beethoven tenía algo de negro, el cuento que da título a este volumen en el que la escritora sudafricana, galardonada con el premio Nobel en 1991, presenta una serie de historias cuyos protagonistas viven inmersos en los problemas y contradicciones del mundo actual...read more

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9788402420756 | Ediciones B, May 7, 2008, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Hubo un tiempo en que había negros que querían reivindicarse como blancos.

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Product Description: "You're not responsible for your ancestry, are you . . . But if that's so, why have marched under banned slogans, got yourself beaten up by the police, arrested a couple of times; plastered walls with subversive posters . . . The past is valid only in relation to whether the present recognizes it...read more

Miscellaneous:

9781605146263 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, March 15, 2008), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: "You're not responsible for your ancestry, are you .

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Product Description: Always exploring the boundaries of race, identity, politics, memory, sexuality, and love with fearless insight and deep compassion, Nadine Gordimer has produced another masterpiece of short fiction. From a former anti-apartheid activist’s search for his own racial identity by tracing his great-grandfather’s part in South Africa’s diamond industry to a parrot that scandalizes people with repetitions of their quarrels and clandestine love-talk, this new collection of stories eloquently probes how people are never free from their past nor spared from loss...read more

Hardcover:

9780374109820, titled "Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black And Other Stories: And Other Stories" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 27, 2007, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction addresses issues of race, identity, and politics, in the title story about an anti-apartheid activist and academic who pursues questions of his own racial identity, and thirteen other stories.

Paperback:

9780143114239 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 28, 2008), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Always exploring the boundaries of race, identity, politics, memory, sexuality, and love with fearless insight and deep compassion, Nadine Gordimer has produced another masterpiece of short fiction.
9780143167617, titled "Beethoven Was One Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories" | Penguin Group Canada, January 10, 2008, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: In this collection of new stories, Nadine Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the fearless insight that is the hallmark of her writing.

Miscellaneous:

9781429967600 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 27, 2007), cover price $9.99

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Product Description: South African writer Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, edited and compiled these stories from some of the most notable writers today in order to raise funds for the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), which fights AIDS and HIV in Africa...read more
By Nadine Gordimer (editor)

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9788493520496 | Sexto Piso Espana S L, November 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: South African writer Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, edited and compiled these stories from some of the most notable writers today in order to raise funds for the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), which fights AIDS and HIV in Africa.

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Product Description: HAY ALGO AHI FUERA

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9788420631936 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: HAY ALGO AHI FUERA

Paul Bannerman, an ecologist living in South Africa, begins to re-examine his life after he is diagnosed with thyroid cancer and begins radiation treatments--an isolating experience that forces him to confront his relationships with family and friends.

Hardcover:

9780786283606 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 22, 2006), cover price $30.95
9780374161705 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 29, 2005, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Paul Bannerman, an ecologist living in South Africa, begins to re-examine his life after he is diagnosed with thyroid cancer and begins radiation treatments--an isolating experience that forces him to confront his relationships with family and friends.

Paperback:

9780143037927 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 31, 2006), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Paul Bannerman, an ecologist living in South Africa, begins to re-examine his life after he is diagnosed with thyroid cancer and begins to undergo radiation treatments--an isolating experience that forces him to confront his relationships with family and friends.

Miscellaneous:

9780374707415 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 15, 2007), cover price $9.99

In an anthology of essays and criticism, the author shares her thoughts on the state of contemporary literature, modern morality, and the political struggle of the Third World

Hardcover:

9780374189914 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In an anthology of essays and criticism, the author shares her thoughts on the state of contemporary literature, modern morality, and the political struggle of the Third World

Paperback:

9780374527525 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 2000, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: In an anthology of essays and criticism, the author shares her thoughts on the state of contemporary literature, modern morality, and the political struggle of the Third World
9780747548232 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, August 1, 2000, cover price $22.01

Miscellaneous:

9780374707446 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 15, 2007), cover price $9.99

By Richard Bartlett (editor), Nadine Gordimer (foreword by), Andries Oliphant (contributor) and Morakabe Seakhoa (editor)

Paperback:

9780955233906 | Aflame Books, April 1, 2007, cover price $17.95

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A trio of novels set against the backdrop of ancient Egypt includes Khufu's Wisdom, in which the great Fourth Dynasty ruler confronts the end of his reign and the growing love between his daughter and his chief rival; Rhadopis of Nubia, about the love affair between a pharaoh and a courtesan; and Thebes at War, about Egypt's victory over foreign invaders.
By Anthony Calderbank (trans), Humphrey Davies (trans), Nadine Gordimer (introduced by), Naguib Mahfouz and Raymond Stock (trans)

Hardcover:

9780307266248 | Everymans Library, March 27, 2007, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A trio of novels set against the backdrop of ancient Egypt includes Khufu's Wisdom, in which the great Fourth Dynasty ruler confronts the end of his reign and the growing love between his daughter and his chief rival; Rhadopis of Nubia, about the love affair between a pharaoh and a courtesan; and Thebes at War, about Egypt's victory over foreign invaders.

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By Nadine Gordimer (editor)

Paperback:

9789685679633 | Advanced Marketing s De Rl De Cv, February 28, 2007, cover price $26.95

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