In Nadine Gordimer's short story, "City Lovers," Austrian geologist, Dr. Franz-Josef von Leinsdorf, lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa during the time of apartheid. One night he meets an attractive and accommodating cashier from the supermarket on the street near his apartment, and asks her to run an errand for him. This initial favor rapidly evolves into a complex relationship between the two characters. Because he is white and she is black, they must keep the exact nature of their dynamic secret. The short story explores themes including power and morality.
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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Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer