The Conservationist (34 page)

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FOR MORE WORKS BY NOBEL PRIZE-WINNER NADINE GORDIMER, LOOK FOR THE PENGUIN

“The symbols Nadine Gordimer holds up are good for all times and all places, reminding us of our universal humanity.”

— New York Herald Tribune

Burger’s Daughter

This brilliantly realized work unfolds the story of a young woman’s slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of South Africa. Her father’s death in prison leaves Rosa moving through an overwhelming flood of sensuously described memories that will not release her until she arrives at last at a fresh understanding of her life, sweeping this engrossing narrative to a triumphant conclusion.

ISBN 0-14-005593-2

The Conservationist

Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroys his farm.

ISBN 0-14-004716-6

The House Gun

A house gun — in post-apartheid South Africa kept like a house cat: a fact of ordinary life at the end of the last century where violence is in the air.
The House Gun
is a passionate narrative of that final test of complex human relations we call love, moving from the intimate to the general condition. If it is a parable of present violence it is also an affirmation of the will to reconcile that starts where it must, between individual men and women.

ISBN 0-14-027820-6

July’s People

As South Africa turns into a raging battleground between blacks and whites, the liberal white Smales family members are led to refuge by their servant, July. What happens to them — the shifts in character and relationships — provides an unforgettable look into the terrifying tacit understanding and misunderstanding between blacks and whites.

ISBN 0-14-006140-1

Jump and Other Short Stories

In sixteen stories ranging from the dynamics of family life to the worldwide confusion of human values, Nadine Gordimer gives us access to many lives in places from exotic Mozambique to turbulent South Africa. Moving, incisive, and with strong moral resonance, Gordimer’s stories offer a portrait of life as it was lived at the end of our 20th century.

ISBN 0-14-016534-7

Loot and Other Stories

With her characteristic brilliance, in ten stories Gordimer follows the inner lives of characters confronted by unforeseen circumstances. An earthquake offers tragedy and opportunity in the title story; “Mission Statement” describes a bureaucrat’s idealism, the ghosts of colonial history, and a love affair that ends astoundingly; and in “Karma,” a disembodied narrator questions the nature of existence in five returns to earthly life. Revelatory and powerful, these are stories that challenge our deepest convictions even as they dazzle us with their artful lyricism.

ISBN 0-14-200468-5

My Son’s Story

Told through the eyes of a young man, this is the story of what he knows and what he imagines of political and erotic liberation, of sexual jealousy between father and adolescent son, and of the power of apartheid behind the changes in 1980s South Africa.

“In
My Son’s Story
, Nadine Gordimer has given us a world of bleak beauty and enormous force.”

—
The Washington Post Book World

ISBN 0-14-015975-4

None to Accompany Me

In an extraordinary period immediately before the first non-racial election and the beginning of majority rule in South Africa, Vera Stark works as a lawyer representing blacks in the struggle to reclaim the land. The return of exiles is transforming the city, and through the lives of Didymus Maqoma, his wife Sibongile, and their lovely daughter who cannot even speak her parent’s African language, the reader experiences the strange passions, reversals, and dangers that accompany newly-won access to power.

ISBN 0-14025039-5

The Pickup

A riveting story of a passionate love affair that begins as a casual encounter between a rich, white South African girl and an illegal Arab immigrant. A novel of great power, psychological surprises, and unexpected turns,
The Pickup
is a “masterpiece of creative empathy ... a gripping tale of contemporary anguish and unexpected desire” (Edward Said).

ISBN 0-14-200142-2