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I've read Shame. From Pakistan to South Africa: how about Burger's Daughter? ... "successful" category too. It's the first I finished. This is what I ended up reading from the 1001 list for my 888:
1. Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
2. Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
3. Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, RL Steveson
4. Indigo, or Mapping the Waters, Marina Warner
5. Th ... I've already left a review of Burger's Daughter at the book's main page, and on my Reading Globally thread.
Jane Eyre. Again, what can be said that hasn't been said already? My best friend read this book when we were 14, and I didn't know what it was about but thought it looked waaay boring. ... ... coming of age story
The Joys of Motherhood, a woman navigates the turbulence and change around tradition and modernity.
Burgher's Daughter, a young woman, daughter of famous anti-apartheid activists, confronts her family legacy.
Woman at Point Zero, based on a true story, a woman, in ... ... Fantasia: an Algerian Cavalcade.(Algeria)
Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood (Nigeria)
Nadine Gordimer, Burgher's Daughter (South Africa)
Bessie Head. A Question of Power (South Africa)
Elsa Joubert, The long journey of Poppie Nongena (South Africa)
Magone, Si ... ... Did you enjoy them? Of the four you read, I have only heard of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde.
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I didn't like Burger's Daughter at all (I wrote a review of it that you can read at the book's page if you're interested). Cranford was both fun and interesting. I just finished Indigo ... I have! (waving hand in the air energetically). So far I've counted Burger's Daughter, Cranford, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Indigo toward this category. I know I'll be reading a lot of 1001 books this year--more than the eight alloted for this category.
(I've also read Jane Eyre and ... Updating my map to add:
23. South Africa: Burger's Daughter, by Nadine Gordimer. I really disliked this book. Here is my review:
I realize that Burger’s Daughter is an Important Book, and that the author won a Nobel Prize for Literature. That doesn’t make me like this book, although ... ... it's a reread, but it was over 500 pages, and I studied it in great detail, so it would just be silly not to count it.
2. Burger's Daughter
I'm busy reading other stuff that I need to read for school. I still have full faith that I'll do okay on this challenge despite my slow start. ... Johnson
2. Confessions of an English Opium Eater, by Thomas De Quency
3. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
4. Burger's Daughter, by Nadine Gordimer
5. Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare
6. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte (reread) I just finished reading Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer, and while there were many things about it I liked, overall, I really disliked it, particularly the author's writing style. My chief complaint is how she represents dialogue--I believe that standard punctuation exists for a reason and ... I just finished Burger's Daughter, by Nadine Gordimer, which I do not recommend. Very frustrating writing style, and not interesting enough to warrant it.
Now I'm rereading Jane Eyre, which doesn't count because, well, it's a reread. It's assigned reading for a class I'm taking, and I ... I've read a number of these and several quite recently.
Burgher's Daughter is about a young woman who is the daughter of anti-Apartheide activists and what that means for her life.
Nervous Conditions is a young woman's coming-of-age story set in Zimbabwe, then known as Rhodesia.
I'd ... ... trans. from the French)
The Book of Ruth, Jane Hamilton (novel, US)
Bread Givers, Anzia Yezierska (novel, US)
Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer (novel, South Africa)
Confessions of Ladi Nijo, Lady Nijo (diary, trans. from the Japanese)
Dear Departed, Marguerite Yourcenar (bio ... I'm making a ninth list . . .
Books that I put on more than one list:
1. Burger's Daughter (1001 & World Lit)
2. Cranford (1001 & Books for University)
3. Bleak House (Books for University & Big Books)
4. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1001 & Books for University)
5. The Color Purple ... ... and we don't have this thread going yet . . . So, what are you reading from the 1001 list?
I'm 3/4 of the way through Burger's Daughter, but I've had to put it aside because school has started and I have other reading to do now. Nothing important, just some Victorian lit that didn't make ... Seven- World Literature (Authors from outside of Canada, US, UK)
1. Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer, South Africa (completed January 2008)
2. Family Matters, by Rohinton Mistry, India (completed April 2008). I know that Mistry is really a Canadian writer, but he came to Canada as an ... Four- 1001 Books to Read . . .
1. Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer (completed January 2008)
2. Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell (completed February 2008)
3. Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, RL Steveson (completed March 2008)
4. Indigo, or Mapping the Waters, Marina Warner (completed March ... ... Sleepwalking Land
Djebar, Assia (Algeria), Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
Gordimer, Nadine (South Africa) Burger’s Daughter
Gurnah, Abdulrazak (Zanibar), Desertion
Mahfouz, Naguib (Egypt) Midaq Alley
Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Kenya) The River Between
Okri, Ben (Nigeria) ... ... worth reading. I can't say I loved it, but it may be my mood (I haven't really been into non-fiction lately).
Now on to Burger's Daughter, by Nadine Gordimer. Not sure if I'm in the mood for this one, either! :-) I'm now on to Burger's Daughter, by Nadine Gordimer. I figured I'd slip in something different before I start my Victorian literature course next week. Anyway, I'm not sure if I'm in the mood for this one . . . so far it's okay, but hasn't gripped me. I'm giving it to page 60, and if it still ... ... of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
22. Haiti: The Farming of Bones, by Edwidge Danticat
23. South Africa: Burger's Daughter, by Nadine Gordimer
24. Nigeria: Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Most of these I read in 2007. If I remember books that I ... ... entry).
I feel hardly qualified to recommend this Nobel prize-winning author as I have only read Burger's Daughter which - although read quickly, under deadline, still lingers with me. I am hopeful that one of you will step up to the plate, so to speak, and recommend ... Just some quick thoughts...
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer.
A fascinating history of South Africa through the eyes of the daughter of anti-apartheid activists. I thought the novel somewhat complex and very introspective at times - not a casual read, I think. I was time-pressed to have ... I have 'finished' Burger's Daughter. Wish I had more time to read the book more slowly and digest the vast amounts of 'stuff' in it, but I have move on to the rest of my list (the clock is ticking). Thus, I now will be reading Arrow of God by Achebe. I have also finished reading Jen Benka's A B ... Reading Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer. Don't know why, but it's rather slow-going. Currently reading (all class-related reading):
Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer (slower going than my other reads...)
Carnival Culture: The Trashing of Taste in America, James B. Twitchell (very interesting stuff here!)
Of Plymouth Plantation, William Bradford (nearly finished, ... ... this! Thanks. Both of you would have unique perspectives on the subject.
I'm in South Africa with Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter but I'm also here in Massachusetts with William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 (nonfiction) and several other less literal places with two ... ... book, lindsacl (the Peter Carey).
I'm packing up here in Zanzibar and heading down to South Africa for Nadine Gordimer's Burgher's Daughter. ... talk about it without spoilers. I do think his By the Sea is a better book, generally.
Will begin Nadine Gordimer's Burgher's Daughter next (meanwhile I am accumulating quite a pile of non-class related reading which sits on a literal precipice awaiting the first free moment...). Thanks, avaland. I don't know Gurnah so I will look for By the Sea. I read Burgher's Daughter years ago when I was reading a lot of Nadine Gordimer, but I really don't remember it now. ... to see if I can entice one of the African LTers I've met to post.
Finishing Desertion tonight and then will begin Burgher's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer. Will let you know more about the Gurnah novel after I've mulled a bit. Rebeccanyc, if you haven't read his By the Sea yet, I think ... ... Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
90. Fifth Business Robertson Davies
91. The Siege of Krishnapur J.G. Farrell
92. Burger's Daughter Nadine Gordimer
93. The Murderer A.K. Heath
94. The Human Factor Graham Greene
95. Lamb Bernard MacLaverty
96. The Lost Salt Gift of Blood Ali ...
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