Book description
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In The Diamond Mine' a woman remembers her first, passionately erotic
experience, hidden, in the company of her parents, with a soldier who
may not be alive to remember her. The anopheles mosquito brings death
to the saunas and other playgrounds of the developed with in The
Emissary'.
In Karma', Gordimer's inventiveness knows no bounds: in five returns
to the earthly life, taking on different ages and genders, a
disembodied narrator testifies to unfinished business - critically,
wittily - and questions the nature of existence.
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A startling new work from a Nobel prize-winning author: ten short
stories, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering
unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. In the title story an
earthquake exposes both an ocean bed strewn with treasure among the
dead, and the avarice of the town's survivors. < 'The stories are
wry and wary, and the common thread is conflict as cultures or
generations, desires or ideologies, clash irreconcilably; and
apartheid's ghost still haunts the new South Africa ... perfect, lyrical
prose' Sunday Telegraph 'Sparse, sharply honed and often ending with an
ironic twist' Independent Magazine 'Rapid, unimpeded storytelling ...
brilliant ... wonderful ... her humour is wise and completely
desiccated' Guardian 'Nadine Gordimer is one of the best storywriters in
English today' Observer >
In The Diamond Mine' a woman remembers
her first, passionately erotic experience, hidden, in the company of
her parents, with a soldier who may not be alive to remember her. The
anopheles mosquito brings death to the saunas and other playgrounds of
the developed with in The Emissary'.
In Karma', Gordimer's inventiveness knows no bounds: in five returns
to the earthly life, taking on different ages and genders, a
disembodied narrator testifies to unfinished business - critically,
wittily - and questions the nature of existence.
P>
A startling new work from a Nobel prize-winning author: ten short
stories, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering
unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. In the title story an
earthquake exposes both an ocean bed strewn with treasure among the
dead, and the avarice of the town's survivors. <
