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Zusatztext 'Nadine Gordimer is the real thing: by which I mean a true writer of graphic power! palpitating sensibility! and high and persistent emotional voltage' 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 For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July - the shifts in character and relationships - gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites. A terrifyingly plausible vision from one of the most enduring and acclaimed writers in the English language Zusammenfassung A terrifyingly plausible vision.