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, destroy his farm....

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....

Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer follows the inner lives of characters confronted by unforeseen circumstances. Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and marriage....

Mit ihrem schwarzen Hausboy July und den drei Kindern fliehen Bam und Maureen Smales vor den Rassenunruhen aus Johannesburg in ein Dorf im Busch. Hier sind sie auf Gedeih und Verderb von July und seiner Familie abhängig. Mit der Umkehr der......

When Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, is diagnosed with cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive, his suddenly fragile existence makes him question his life for the first time. He is especially struck by the contradiction in values of his work as a conservationist and that of his wife, an advertising agency executive....

The latest collection of stories from Nobel and Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer. This rich story collection will be a reminder to Nadine Gordimer\"s countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imaginative power....

Henry Lawson, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe are respectively Australian, Caribbean, South African and Nigerian, yet they all write in English. The \'English\' literature of the ex-colonies is proving to be the most interesting and innovative of our times: this volume offers a significant example of its vitality and originality....