Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories
Nadine Gordimer, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $20 (177p) ISBN 978-0-374-10982-0
Thirteen stories from South African Nobel Prize–winner Gordimer offer a staccato demonstration of how people’s origins, inheritances and histories—and the loss of them—are inescapable. The title story centers on the white, twice-divorced academic descendant of a London diamond prospector who visits his forebear’s mine in Kimberly, South Africa, and wonders about who in the township, black and white, he may be related to. The narrator of “Dreaming of the Dead” is haunted by famous former companions (the late intellectuals Edward Said and Susan Sontag), while the grieving widow of “
Reviewed on: 09/10/2007
Release date: 11/01/2007
Genre: Fiction
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