Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black

Always exploring the boundaries of race, identity, politics, memory, sexuality, and love with fearless insight and deep compassion, Nadine Gordimer has produced another masterpiece of short fiction. From a former anti-apartheid activist's search for his own racial identity by tracing his great-grandfather's part in South Africa's diamond industry to a parrot that scandalizes people with repetitions of their quarrels and clandestine love-talk, this new collection of stories eloquently probes how people are never free from their past nor spared from loss.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 10/28/2008
ISBN: 9780143114239
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.12w x 0.51d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 11/16/2008 pg. 24