{"product_id":"no-time-like-the-present-paperback","title":"No Time Like the Present - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNadine Gordimer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA perfect example of what literature can give us that history books cannot.--Francine Prose, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSteve and Jabulile, once clandestine lovers under a racist law forbidding sexual relations between black and white, are living in a newly free South Africa. Both were combatants in the struggle against apartheid, and now, he, a university lecturer, and she, a lawyer, are parents of children born in freedom. But as the ideals of this better life for all are challenged by the realities of the world around them, Steve and Jabulile consider leaving the country they so vehemently fought to free. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe subject in \u003ci\u003eNo Time Like the Present \u003c\/i\u003eis contemporary, but Nadine Gordimer's treatment is, as ever, timeless. In the telling of this conflicted couple, she captures the fragmented essence of a nation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNadine Gordimer (1923-2014), the recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in a small South African town. Her first book, a collection of stories, was published when she was in her early twenties; she went on to publish more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer novels include the Booker Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Conservationist\u003c\/i\u003e, Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Pickup\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNo Time Like the Present\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eA World of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Late Bourgeois World\u003c\/i\u003e, and the award-winning \u003ci\u003eBurger's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e were originally banned in South Africa. Gordimer's short story collections include \u003ci\u003eLoot \u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJump and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSomething Out There\u003c\/i\u003e. She also published literary and political essay collections such as \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Gesture\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWriting and Being\u003c\/i\u003e, the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures she gave at Harvard in 1994; and \u003ci\u003eLiving in Hope and History\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMs. Gordimer was a vice president of PEN International and an executive member of the Congress of South African Writers. She was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in Great Britain and an honorary member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was also a Commandeur of l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France). She held fourteen honorary degrees from universities including Harvard, Yale, the University of Leuven in Belgium, Oxford University, and Cambridge University.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 05, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42720372031551,"sku":"9781250024039","price":34.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/da7ff5920ce1b601ddaa4682a2748b03.webp?v=1765088922","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/no-time-like-the-present-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}