Product Description
In these stories, selected by Gordimer herself, characters from every corner of society come to life, along with the South African landscape they inhabit. The stories have a strong focus on racial issues, yet their implications are universal. The stories are National Curriculum recommended reading.
Reviews:
Queen of the damned (Belgium) (2008/06/29): In these stories, selected by Nadine Gordimer herself, unforgettable characters from every corner of society come to life. The African landscape they inhabit - from the River Zaire to black Johannesburg to the hushed gardens of the white suburbs - is brilliantly depicted.
We meet the white woman whose determined 'understanding' of racial injustice drives the black men she meets to exasperated ridicule; an old Afrikaner determined to enjoy his venture into a new kind of wilderness - an African state under black rule; a black student suddenly overcome by the need to escape the kind of emancipation white liberals plan for him.
The setting of these stories is South Africa, Nadine Gordimer's homeland; in their imaginative and compelling visions, their powerful implifications are universal.
