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No Time Like the Present
A sharply observed new novel about post-apartheid South Africa from the Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each new work, she attacks—with a clear-eyed fierceness, a lack of sentimentality, and a deep understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul—her eternal themes: the inextricable link between personal and communal history; the inescapable moral ambiguities of daily life; the political and racial tensions that persist in her homeland, South Africa. And in each new work is fresh evidence of her literary genius: in the sharpness of her psychological insights, the stark beauty of her language, the complexity of her characters, and the difficult choices with which they are faced. In No Time Like the Present, 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. The subject is contemporary, but Gordimer's treatment is, as ever, timeless. In No Time Like the Present, she shows herself once again a master novelist, at the height of her prodigious powers.
Manykomica
This is a collection of events that tells the story of Manykomica, a whimsical place where colorful characters secretly weave one story into another, endlessly, despite the limitations of finitude.
Ephemeral Freedom
A girl is abandoned in front of an Emergency Room hospital department in Turin, she’s in serious conditions. Who is she? What’s her name? Where is she from? She’s black, beautiful, she has unconventional green eyes and she’s very young. As for the rest, nobody knows anything about her, now to the doctors she’s just a body fighting between life and death. And it’s in this very battle between life and death that the girl, in a hallucinated inner monologue, tries to remember her history. In the dreamlike space and time of the coma she has fallen into she pieces together her journey that, ten years before, brought her from a poor African village to Italy with the promise of education and more dignified life conditions. However, in Italy she doesn’t find anything else but the horror of pedophilia and prostitution, she’s abused, humiliated, manipulated by a network of wealthy and empty, anonymous and corrupted people. A moving story, an agonizing scream of pain for all women.