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None to accompany me, nadine gordimers eleventh novel, takes place in a tumultuous south africa in the final throws of apartheid, in the year. In an extraordinary period immediately before the first nonracial election and the beginning of majority rule in south africa, vera stark, the protagonist of nadine gordimers passionate new novel, weaves a ruthless interpretation of her own past into her participation in the present as a lawyer representing blacks in the struggle to. None to accompany me, nadine gordimers eleventh novel, takes place in a tumultuous south africa in the final throws of apartheid, in the year when the old life comes to an end. Briege duffaud admires nadine gordimers exploration of the new south africa. The novel follows the motifs and plot framework of a bildungsroman, exploring the development of the main character, vera stark. Editions of none to accompany me by nadine gordimer. Dimitriu rightly identifies the spiritual dimension of gordimers more recent prose as an interesting new way of interpreting her work, a spiritualizing rereading of it 12, as most of her post1994 and earlier writing lends itself to such an.
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