None to Accompany Me by Nadine Gordimer

The Nobel Prize-winning author tells the emotional story of two couples, one black and one white, whose complex relationships evolve as they face the hazards and hopes of post-apartheid South Africa.

About the Author
Nadine Gordimer was born in 1923 in Springs, a small gold-mining town thirty miles from Johannesburg. Her parents were Jewish Emigres, her mother from England and her father from Latvia; he ran a jewelry store in town where Gordimer attended an all-white convent school. Gordimer credits Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle, about oppressed Chicago meatpackers, with opening her eyes to the plight of the black mine workers in Springs. Her focus, though, in life as well as work, has always been on the individual experience. In a 1991 interview in The New York Times, Gordimer describes being "drawn into politics not through ideas but through friendships with many black people through the years. Little by little, I began to see what I was a part of."
Gordimer's first short story was published when she was fifteen. Her writing career took off when The New Yorker printed a story in 1946, and her first collection appeared three years later. She has since published seven volumes of short stories and eleven novels, which have been translated into twenty languages. Gordimer has won some of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. A vocal member of the long-outlawed African National Congress, she is also a founder of the predominantly black Congress of South African Writers.
One of apartheid's fiercest critics, Nadine Gordimer has long been considered a preeminent interpreter of South Africa, and also its conscience. Her life is a vivid portrait of, in her words, what apartheid means in human terms.

 

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