Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black

By: Nadine Gordimer

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Paperback | 1 December 2008 | Edition Number 1

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A woman gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband's cello; a wife reads her husband's mood by the scent in the nape of his neck; a newly emigrated couple are divided by visual obsession, he with his native Budapest, she with South African suburbia.
There is lively conversation amongst recently departed literary luminaries in the Chinese restaurant of 'Dreaming of the Dead', and a widow seeks an incarnation of the husband she never knew in life when she meets his former gay lover in 'Allesverloren'. In 'A Frivolous Woman', an old woman compromises not just her own, but others' safety escaping from war-time Germany, while the title story illuminates a new discrimination, where people seek to claim - not hide - a trace of 'the tar brush'.

Industry Reviews

'Wrestles fiercely with notions of race, identity, fidelity, truth and mortality ... More than a match for any other living storyteller' The Times 'Nadine Gordimer is one of the best story-writers in English today' Observer 'An impressive story collection charting the changes in post-apartheid South Africa' Sunday Times 'Gordimer has undoubtedly become one of the world's great writers' Independent

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