Synopses & Reviews
"Ms. Gordimer's South Africa is conveyed in passages of relentless sensual and emotional fidelity. Moments matter, deserve the painstaking eye for detail, the moral intelligence she devotes to rendering them, her determination to make each sentence count and her characters accountable...She is a master of realistic narrative...The tales in
Jump are not committed to specific ideology but to the grand task of spiritual examination and social redemption." —
The New York Times"Fascinating...It's as if the mirror that Gordimer holds up to South Africa has exploded, leaving a scatter of fragments that we perceive haphazardly, as a strong searchlight moves over the pieces, illuminating first one, then another."—USA Today
"Cunningly designed...Her themes range far beyond apartheid, her characters -- whether black or white -- are delegates representing the vast human comedy and tragedy, and her lapidary language is elegant." —The New York Times Book Review
"Gordimer's talent is poetic and intellectual...Her best writing, sensuous, but aerated with deep intelligence, moving shrewdly between the serene claims of the poetic and the frantic compulsions of the political, makes her the lyrical analyst of an entire country." —James Wood, The Guardian (London)
Review
"A gallery of riveting tales . . . Gordimer's long and prolific career has left little doubt of her mastery of the art of fiction.”
—The Washington Post Book World“Gordimer has rarely been more profound or more quietly brilliant than in these exquisitely subtle stories.” —Publishers Weekly
“Readers of Ms. Gordimer's fiction know that the riveting details, the epiphanies scattered throughout the narrative that shock and surprise, function within a larger vision. This expansive vision, its moral power and artistic integrity, are what elevate her fiction above that of most of her contemporaries.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Gordimer's stories are captivating, in the literal sense of holding in thrall the reader's entire attention.” —Chicago Tribune
Review
"A gallery of riveting tales . . . Gordimer's long and prolific career has left little doubt of her mastery of the art of fiction.”
—The Washington Post Book World“Gordimer has rarely been more profound or more quietly brilliant than in these exquisitely subtle stories.” —Publishers Weekly
“Readers of Ms. Gordimer's fiction know that the riveting details, the epiphanies scattered throughout the narrative that shock and surprise, function within a larger vision. This expansive vision, its moral power and artistic integrity, are what elevate her fiction above that of most of her contemporaries.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Gordimer's stories are captivating, in the literal sense of holding in thrall the reader's entire attention.” —Chicago Tribune
Synopsis
Jump and Other Stories collects fifteen thematically and geographically wide-ranging tales from political activist and Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, with settings ranging from suburban London to Mozambique.
With unflinching depictions of how South Africa's apartheid policies drove racial inequality, wartime atrocities, marital strife, and family struggles, Gordimer's stories feature characters coping with morality in unjust socieites--uncovering both the beauty and tragedy found in human interactions with each other and with the natural world.
Synopsis
Fifteen thematically and geographically wide-ranging stories from the Nobel Prize Winner, with settings ranging from suburban London to Mozambique.
About the Author
Nadine Gordimer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, is the author of fifteen novels, more than ten volumes of stories, and three nonfiction collections. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.