(P/B) BEETHOVEN WAS ONE-SIXTEENTH BLACK

Παρουσίαση

This rich story collection will be a reminder to Nadine Gordimer's countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her imaginative power. A woman gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband's cello; a wife reads her husband's mood by the scent in the nape of his neck; a newly emigrated couple are divided by visual obsession, he with his native Budapest, she with South African suburbia. With consummate artistry and unexpected flashes of humour, Gordimer illustrates the showdowns, standoffs and highlights of human intimacy while penetrating the nuances of immigration, national identity and race. (From the publisher)

"Gordimer has undoubtedly become one of the world's great writers". (INDEPENDENT)

"Simply profound and believable... this collection is written with a voice of considered sobriety, beautiful at times, brutal at others". (SCOTSMAN)

"An impressive story collection charting the changes in post-apartheid South Africa". (SUNDAY TIMES)

"Intimate, revelatory moments form the focus of these eleven stories... Gordimer loads her stark, spare sentences with a weighty burden - love, loss, anger and grief - and it is testament to her skill as a writer and observer that they bear it so effortlessly". (DAILY MAIL)

Περιεχόμενα

Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
Tape Measure
Dreaming of the Dead
A Frivolous Woman
Gregor
Safety Procedures
Mother Tongue
Allesverloren
History
A Beneficiary
Alternative Endings
The First Sense
The Second Sense
The Third Sense