No Time Like the Present

English first edition cover

No Time Like the Present is a 2012 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer. It was Gordimer's last published novel during her lifetime.

Plot

The novel is set during the period after the lifting of Apartheid. Stephen, a white, half-Jew, half Christian, and Jabulile (Jubu), a Zulu, are now able to legally live as a married couple in South Africa.

Works by Nadine Gordimer Novels The Conservationist Burger's Daughter July's People A Sport of Nature My Son's Story The Pickup Get a Life No Time Like the Present Collections The Soft Voice of the Serpent Loot and Other Stories Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black Related What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South African Censorship Works