Book Summary and Reviews of Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black by Nadine Gordimer

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"Starred Review. Again and again, Gordimer puts big, sweeping disasters (the Holocaust, apartheid) in the pasts of flawed, ill-equipped characters and shows how their choices have been little more than wing beats against history. The results are terrifying, sometimes acidly funny and often beautiful." - Publishers Weekly.

"Starred Review. With Gordimer's exquisite use of language, keen insight into social relationships, and elegant writing style in full form, this work is recommended for all libraries." - Library Journal.

"Mostly finger exercises (think Mozart's shorter works), but the best of them are executed with finesse and power." - Kirkus Reviews.

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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, is the author of fourteen novels, nine volumes of stories, and three nonfiction collections. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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