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Zusatztext A fine! compassionate! and exquisitely written work Informationen zum Autor Nadine Gordimer's many novels include The Conservationist , joint winner of the Booker Prize, Get A Life , Burger's Daughter , July's People , My Son's Story and The Pickup . Her collections of short stories include The Soft Voice of the Serpent , Something Out There , Jump , Loot and, most recently, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black . She has also collected and edited Telling Tales , a story anthology published in fourteen languages whose royalties go to HIV/AIDS organisations. In 2010 her nonfiction writings were collected in Telling Times and a substantial selection of her stories was published in Life Times . Her most recent novel was No Time Like the Present , published in 2012. Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. She lived in South Africa until she died in 2014. Klappentext Liz Van Den Sandt's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for a failed act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues. Now Liz has been asked to perform a direct service for the Black Nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself. Can she take such a risk in the face of Max's example of the uselessness of such actions? Yet ... how can she not?Reissued with a stylish black and white photographic cover to coincide with the paperback publication of No Time Like the Present Zusammenfassung Liz Van Den Sandt's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for a failed act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues.Now Liz has been asked to perform a direct service for the Black Nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself. Can she take such a risk in the face of Max's example of the uselessness of such actions? Yet ... how can she not?...
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Superb ... [Nadine] Gordimer's persuasiveness is achieved with one of the lightest and yet most inexorable touches you will find in contemporary writing New York Times
