Nadine Gordimer

When Julie Summers' car breaks down in a sleazy street, a young Arab garage mechanic comes to her rescue. Out of this meeting develops a friendship that turns to love. But soon, despite his attempts to make the most of Julie's wealthy connections, Abdu is deported from South Africa and Julie insists on going too - but the couple must...

Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each new work, she attacks - with a clear-eyed lack of sentimentality, and an understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul - the inextricable link between personal life and political, communal history. The revelation of this theme in each new work, not only in her...

A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of the cinema with a woman. An ordinary mishap; but the father is no ordinary man, and the family, threatened by the affair, is no ordinary family. This is a passionate story; love between a man and two women, between father and son, and something even more demanding - a love of...

Rosa Burger dorastała w czasach, gdy inwigilacja rządu Południowej Afryki była wszechobecna i odbijała się piętnem na każdym najdrobniejszym aspekcie codzienności. Obojga rodziców Rosy zatrzymano na skutek politycznych przekonań, ojciec umarł w więzieniu, matka wkrótce po opuszczeniu aresztu. Śmierć rodziców oraz ciążące na niej brzemię lewicowego...