{"product_id":"jump-and-other-stories-9781250003768","title":"Jump and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJump and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e collects fifteen thematically and geographically wide-ranging tales from political activist and Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, with settings ranging from suburban London to Mozambique.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith unflinching depictions of how South Africa's apartheid policies drove racial inequality, wartime atrocities, marital strife, and family struggles, Gordimer's stories feature characters coping with morality in unjust socieites--uncovering both the beauty and tragedy found in human interactions with each other and with the natural world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNadine Gordimer (1923-2014), the recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in a small South African town. Her first book, a collection of stories, was published when she was in her early twenties; she went on to publish more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer novels include the Booker Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Conservationist\u003c\/i\u003e, Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Pickup\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNo Time Like the Present\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eA World of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Late Bourgeois World\u003c\/i\u003e, and the award-winning \u003ci\u003eBurger's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e were originally banned in South Africa. Gordimer's short story collections include \u003ci\u003eLoot \u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJump and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSomething Out There\u003c\/i\u003e. She also published literary and political essay collections such as \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Gesture\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWriting and Being\u003c\/i\u003e, the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures she gave at Harvard in 1994; and \u003ci\u003eLiving in Hope and History\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMs. Gordimer was a vice president of PEN International and an executive member of the Congress of South African Writers. She was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in Great Britain and an honorary member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was also a Commandeur of l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France). She held fourteen honorary degrees from universities including Harvard, Yale, the University of Leuven in Belgium, Oxford University, and Cambridge University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649944981778,"sku":"9781250003768","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ba7f436-1c78-4478-af7d-586656dc3100.jpg?v=1733278095","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jump-and-other-stories-9781250003768","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}