Dec 27, 2009

Town and Country Lovers | What Do I Read Next?

Gordimer won the Booker Prize for The Conservationist (1974). In this novel, a wealthy proapartheid industrialist in South Africa struggles with his guilt when a group of poor black people settle on part of his private land.

‘‘Jump’’ and Other Stories (1991) is Gordimer’s most recent collection of short stories. These stories represent Gordimer’s observations of postapartheid South Africa, in which race relations remain strained and awkward.

Set in South Africa, Alan Paton’s Too Late the Phalarope (1953) is about Pieter, a white man who...