Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black

ISBN-13: 9780747593843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str.

Nadine Gordimer

Opis

A collection of stories from Nobel and Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer, this collection illustrates the showdowns, stand-offs and highlights of human intimacy while penetrating the nuances of immigration, national identity and race.

Recenzje

'Wrestles fiercely with notions of race, identity, fidelity, truth and mortality ... More than a match for any other living storyteller' The Times

O autorze

Nadine Gordimer's many novels include The Conservationist, joint winner of the Booker Prize, Get A Life, Burger's Daughter, July's People, My Son's Story and The Pickup. Her collections of short stories include The Soft Voice of the Serpent, Something Out There, Jump, Loot and, most recently, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black. She has also collected and edited Telling Tales, a story anthology published in fourteen languages whose royalties go to HIV/AIDS organisations. In 2010 her nonfiction writings were collected in Telling Times and a substantial selection of her stories was published in Life Times. Her most recent novel was No Time Like the Present, published in 2012. Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. She lived in South Africa until she died in 2014.