None to Accompany me - Softcover

Gordimer, Nadine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140250395 ISBN 13: 9780140250398

Publisher: Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

In an extraordinary period immediately before the first non-racial election and the beginning of majority rule in South Africa, Vera Stark, the protagonist of Nadine Gordimer's passionate new novel, weaves a ruthless interpretation of her own past into her participation in the present as a lawyer representing blacks in the struggle to reclaim the land. The return of exiles is transforming the city, and through the lives of Didymus Maqoma, his wife Sibongile, and their lovely daughter who cannot even speak her parents' African language, the reader experiences the strange passions, reversals, and dangers that accompany new-won access to power. All must change: Didymus, once a major actor in the resistance, making way for Sibongile's emergence as a political figure; Vera, working through the consequences of a lifetime's commitments to a new kind of relationship with a new man of the times, Zeph Rapulana.

About this title

About the Author:

Nadine Gordimer is the author of eleven previous novels, as well as collections of stories and essays. She has received many awards, including the Booker Prize (for The Conservationist in 1974) and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Synopsis:

In the turmoil immediately preceding South Africa's passing of majority rule, a lawyer who represents Blacks and a formerly exiled family struggle with life changes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140250395
• ISBN 13: 9780140250398
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336