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Title: As the world turns ...
Review: As the world turns, so does Nadine Gordimer. If she had written novels like this one throughout her career she would not have been awarded the Nobel Prize. There is an apartheid, and a post-apartheid Nadine Gordimer. The former was the combative writer who, with her brilliant prose, greatly contributed to showcasing the horror of life under the old regime; the latter is still up for definition. One thing is for sure: she ended her activism when her party took power. The old problems, compounded by the new -corruption on the rise, crime, the health crisis, and the government's indifference or unwillingness to face them- apparently do not merit scrutiny or criticism from Mrs. Gordimer. And ... has she forgotten how to write sentences? Her boring characters and their boring lives make for cumbersome reading.I'm sure Nadine Gordimer set out to write a good novel, in her usual vein; what she has published is a mediocrity.
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