Once Upon A Time by Nadine Gordimer is a short story for children set in South Africa during the apartheid era. It tells the story of a family who try to fortify their home against potential crimes and end up harming themselves rather than deterring criminals. It deals with themes of fear of crime, structural inequality, and fairy tales.
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