Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black

Title: Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
Author: Nadine Gordimer
ISBN: 9780143114239
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 192
Section: Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
Publisher Description: Always exploring the boundaries of race, identity, politics, memory, sexuality, and love with fearless insight and deep compassion, Nadine Gordimer has produced another masterpiece of short fiction. From a former anti-apartheid activist's search for his own racial identity by tracing his great-grandfather's part in South Africa's diamond industry to a parrot that scandalizes people with repetitions of their quarrels and clandestine love-talk, this new collection of stories eloquently probes how people are never free from their past nor spared from loss.