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Loot
Nadine Gordimer
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Description for Loot
Paperback. A collection of stories written by the South African Nobel laureate. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214. 256 pages. A collection of stories written by the South African Nobel laureate. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FYB. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight: 208.
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. 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 ... Read more
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. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747565383
SKU
V9780747565383
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer's many novels include The Lying Days (her first novel), The Conservationist, joint winner of the Booker Prize, Burger's Daughter, July's People, None to Accompany Me, The House Gun and, most recently, The Pickup. In 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She lives in South Africa.
Reviews for Loot
'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 ... Read more