Le magicien africain

Au moment même où, dans ses écrits politiques, elle explorait les compromissions morales de l'apartheid, Nadine Gordimer faisait preuve d'une remarquable capacité à analyser le terrain plus intime des relations humaines. Dans ses romans, Le Conservateur, Fille de Burger ou Ceux de July, elle s'est ainsi attachée à décrire l'érosion des valeurs d'une société, en même temps que les explosions de violence qui caractérisent un système politique injuste - en plaçant toujours au centre de la narration l'individu, la relation, la famille. Cependant, c'est dans ses nouvelles, et en particulier celles où la politique ne joue pas un rôle de premier plan, que la romancière traite avec le plus d'intensité et d'imagination les personnages de femmes, de maris, de parents et d'enfants, d'amants aussi, et en extrait l'universalité, dans le désir, ou la douleur de la perte.

Beethoven avait un seizième de sang noir

Histoire de mon fils - Occasion

After being abandoned by her mother, Hillela was pushed onto relatives where she was taught social graces. But when she betrayed her position as surrogate daughter, she was cast adrift. Later she fell into a heroic role in the overthrow of apartheid.

Un Caprice de la Nature

These stories take the reader on journeys across cultures, from the war in Mozambique to the beaches of the South of France, from the affluent suburbs of Johannesburg to the back streets of London, over political territories from the Underground to revolution.

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Ceux de July

Un Monde d'étrangers

Rosa Burger grew up in a home under constant surveillance by the South African government. Her parents were detained for their political beliefs; her father died in prison, and her mother, whose health suffered from her time in jail, eventually dies. Rosa, a white South African in her early 20s, is left the only surviving member of her family. Yet even after her parents' deaths, the history of their anti-apartheid beliefs and practices have a daily impact on her life: it seems everyone has expectations of her and the government is still watching. A quiet, private person, Rosa constantly searches her memories to find herself, to grasp this heritage that weighs her down. Over a period of several years Rosa comes to understand the impact of the South African political climate on her and how she became who she is. The narrative style varies from straightforward storytelling to Rosa's most personal thoughts. In Burger's Daughter, Nobel Prize-winner Nadine Gordimer takes a situation most read about in newspapers and makes it real, creating a memorable story of coming to terms with circumstances over which we have little control, yet which directly affect our lives. --Holly Smith

Le magicien africain

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