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Burger’s Daughter
by Nadine Gordimer
Born in 1923 in the small mining town of Springs, South Africa, Nadine Gordimer is a white South African of Jewish descent. Her father, Isidore Gordimer,...
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Nadine Gordimer (born 1923) was the Nobel Prize-winning author of short stories and novels reflecting the disintegration of South African society. While her early works were in the tradition of libera...
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"Nadine Gordimer has become, in the whole solid body of her work, the literary voice and conscience of her society," declared Maxwell Geismar in Saturday Review. In numerous novels, short stories, and...
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A Nobel Prize winner, an outspoken critic of apartheid, a frequently controversial public figure in her native South Africa, and one of the leading novelists of her age, Nadine Gordimer has been writi...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Hope
Nadine Gordimer's method in her last novel, The Conservationist, and in [Burger's Daughter] compares with the naturalist's. She transfixes unlik...
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Critical Essay by Doris Grumbach
Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter is a remarkable book at the same time that it is difficult, repetitious, dense, and occasionally overwritten. It is r...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Epstein
Nadine Gordimer … has a great subject [for The Burger's Daughter]—a country playing out an historical tragedy—and it is astonishing what a ...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Hope
