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• Gbadanosi, Bakare
• Gool, Reshard
• Gordimer, Nadine

Bakare Gbadanosi and Ulli Beier

Not Even God Is Ripe Enough

Yoruba stories full of fierce amusement. Lovers escape cooking pots, and wry retribution is the order for the day.

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Reshard GOOL

Cape Town Coolie

"...the atmosphere of the novel is perfect."

-- Alan Paton

Set in Southern Africa, this novel traces the fortunes of a young Colored lawyer, Henry Naidoo, through the rising tide of oppression and activism which preceded the Nationalist Party victory of 1948. His story is seen mainly through the eyes of a sympathetic Afrikaaner who supported the activists.

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Nadine GORDIMER

Crimes of Conscience

"Crimes of Conscience lithely covers some tricky moral ground. If you're unfamiliar with Nadine Gordimer's South Africa, this is a perfect place to start."

-- The New York Times Book Review

Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of today's most talented prose-fiction writers. This powerful collection of short stories, set in her native Southern Africa, reveals her outstanding ability to pierce the core of the human condition of those, both black and white, living in countries where repression and coercion is the norm.

Although Gordimer illustrates vividly the subtleties of her characters' emotions, there is always the awareness of the larger canvas, the turmoil of a violent world outside the individual incidents, where the instability of fear and uncertainty lead unwittingly to crimes of conscience.

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