This book is a translation into English of Denise Brahimi's literary critique of the works of Nadine Gordimer (Nadine Gordimer: La femme, la politique, le roman. 2000). Brahimi is a French intellectual known particularly for her scholarship on contemporary African women writers. Everson's translation gives an anglophone readership insights into the works of this Nobel Prize winner, which reflect the changing nature of South African society and document the struggle during the apartheid regime, the process of political transformation and post-democratic South African society.