Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
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Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black is a book of short stories by South African writer Nadine Gordimer, published by Bloomsbury.[1][2][3]
Reviewing the collection in The New York Times, Siddhartha Deb wrote, "As she always has, Gordimer offers her readers a rare combination of intimacy and transcendence".[4] Jonathan Gibbs wrote in The Independent:
In her 84th year, Nadine Gordimer has produced a remarkable 10th collection. They show none of the 'audacity' Richard Ford called for in his recent anthology of American short stories. Instead, what they show is tact: a quality that seems bound up in Gordimer's decades of experience. There are stories here that a 30-year-old could not have thought to write, let alone written.[5]
Publication
Many of the stories in the compilation have been published elsewhere and are available online. Some of these are listed below.
- "Gregor Revisited" – Guardian, December 4, 2004
- "The First Sense" – The New Yorker, December 18, 2006
- "A Beneficiary" – The New Yorker, May 21, 2007.
References
- ^ "Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer". Publishers Weekly. 10 September 2007. Archived from the original on 28 December 2023. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ^ "Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black". Kirkus Reviews. 15 September 2007. Archived from the original on 3 October 2023. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- ^ "Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories". Booklist. 1 October 2007. Archived from the original on 23 August 2024. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- ^ Deb, Siddhartha (16 December 2007). "Patterns of Intimacy". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ^ Gibbs, Jonathan (12 December 2007). "The sentimental parrot, the gay fling and other stories of human experience". The Independent. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
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- July's People (1981)
- A Sport of Nature (1987)
- My Son's Story (1990)
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- Get a Life (2005)
- No Time Like the Present (2012)
- The Soft Voice of the Serpent (1952)
- Loot and Other Stories (2003)
- Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black (2007)
- What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South African Censorship Works (1980)
- Telling Tales (2004)
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