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Nadine Gordimer is a political writer by necessity, for in the land of her birth there is no escaping the pervasiveness of politics. It permeates everything, affecting all groups and individuals, warping, shaping, often destroying whatever it touches.

These sixteen stories, like most of Gordimer’s work, take us beneath the surface and cliches, beyond the news reports, international maneuvering, and daily violence to the hearts of those who suffer from, fight against, tolerate, ignore, or promote the injustices of apartheid. But Gordimer is a political, not polemical, writer:...

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