num_pages: 752
description:  An extraordinary achievement Telling Times reflects the true spirit of the writer as a literary beacon moral activist and political visionary.Few writers have been so much at the center of historical events as Nadine Gordimer. Telling Times the first comprehensive collection of her nonfiction bears insightful witness to the forces that have shaped the last half century. It includes reports from Soweto during the 1976 uprising Zimbabwe at the dawn of independence and Africa at the start of the AIDS pandemic as well as illuminating portraits of Nelson Mandela Desmond Tutu and many others. Committed first and foremost to art Gordimer appraises the legacies of hallowed writers like Tolstoy Proust and Conrad and engages vigorously with contemporaries like Achebe Said and Soyinka. No other writer has so consistently evoked the feel of Africaits landscapes cities and peoplethrough a remarkable range of travel writing from Tanzania Egypt and along the Congo River. Telling Times is an extraordinary summation from a writer whose enduring courage and commitment to human freedom have made her a moral compass of her time.
language: English
title: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company