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2007 short story collection by Nadine Gordimer

Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
First edition cover
AuthorNadine Gordimer
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication dateNovember 27, 2007
ISBN978-0-374-10982-0

Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black is a book of short stories by South African writer Nadine Gordimer, published by Bloomsbury.

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". 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.

Publication

Many of the stories in the compilation have been published elsewhere and are available online. Some of these are listed below.

References

  1. "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.
  2. "Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black". Kirkus Reviews. 15 September 2007. Archived from the original on 3 October 2023. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  3. "Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories". Booklist. 1 October 2007. Archived from the original on 23 August 2024. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  4. 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.
  5. 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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