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None to Accompany Me

Nadine Gordimer

  • 324 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1994
  • 3 editions
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1 About this book

The novel is set in South Africa during the last days of the white regime. The heroine is Vera Stark, a white lawyer who works to restore land taken from blacks by the government. Her political work is played out against a background of family problems, among them an overbearing husband, a lesbian daughter and a son who has emigrated to England and is divorcing his wife. By the author of My Son's Story.

  • Relationships
  • Marriage
  • Race relations
  • Domestic fiction
  • Romance
  • South africa
  • Africa
  • Women lawyers

2 About Nadine Gordimer

1923–2014

Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity". Gordimer was one of the most honoured female writers of her generation.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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