01389nam a2200241 a 4500 vtls000062312 KUKTEM 20251125093307.0 120618t2012 enk g 000 1 eng d 9781408831755 (pbk.) 9781408830307 (hbk.) 201211081140 fauzi 201206181553 sri UMP PR9369.3.G6 N68 2012 fic Gordimer, Nadine No time like the present / Nadine Gordimer London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2012 421 p. ; 24 cm. At the heart of the story is an interracial couple, Steve and Jabulile, living in a newly - tentatively - free South Africa, he a university lecturer she a lawyer, both comrades in the Struggle and now parents of children born in freedom.There is nothing so extraordinary about their lives, and yet, in telling their story, and the stories of their friends and families, Gordimer manages to capture the tortured, fragmented essence of a nation struggling to define itself in the post-apartheid world of Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. The subject is contemporary, but Gordimer's treatment is, as ever, timeless Interpersonal relations Fiction South Africa Social conditions 1994- Fiction 0 0 0 0 20000 20000 2019-09-04 62.09 0 PR9369.3.G6 N68 2012 fic 0000067737 2019-09-04 00:00:00 1 62.09 2019-09-04 OPEN VIRTUA40 63335 63341 VTLSSORT0080*0200*0201*0400*0900*1000*2450*2600*3000*5200*6500*6510*9992