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Loot and Other Stories (Paperback)
$14.00 - Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Loot and Other Stories"Loot" features ten new stories from Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer--"a diamond-sharp book" ("San Francisco Chronicle").
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Published: 30 September 2004
- Format: Paperback 240 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
- ISBN 13: 9780142004685 ISBN 10: 0142004685
- Sales rank: 794,615
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Full description for Loot and Other Stories
With her characteristic brilliance, Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer follows the inner lives of characters confronted by unforeseen circumstances. An earthquake offers tragedy and opportunity in the title story, exposing both an ocean bed strewn with treasure and the avarice of the town's survivors. ?Mission Statement? is the story of a bureaucrat's idealism, the ghosts of colonial history, and a love affair with a government minister that ends astoundingly. And in ?Karma, ? Gordimer's inventiveness knows no bounds: in five returns to earthly life, a disembodied narrator, taking on different ages and genders, testifies to unfinished business and questions the nature of existence. Revelatory and powerful, these are stories that challenge our deepest convictions even as they dazzle us with their artful lyricism.
