Atrapa LA Vida

Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery, prescribed treatment that will leave him radioactive, he is isolated from other people and he begins to question his work and the politics of South Africa.

Nadine Gordimer is the author of 13 novels, nine volumes of stories, and three nonfiction collections. She was was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.