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Octavo (133mm x 202mm) hardcover book in the original blue publisher’s cloth binding with gilt titles to the spine, in a dust-wrapper; both in Good condition. Pages 1 to 6 contain preliminary matter and pages 7 to 208 are text, comprising a collection of 15 short stories. Both front end-papers and the back free end-paper are slightly browned. Original owner’s signature and a bookseller’s label on front fixed end-paper. Signed by author on front free end-paper which doubles as the half-title page.

Nadine Gordimer (1923 - 2014) was a South African writer with an international reputation for both her skills as a novelist as well as her short stories, who was awarded the Nobel Prise for Literature in 1991. She had strong political views opposed to apartheid. She was recognized as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing (in the words of Alfred Nobel himself) had been of very great benefit to humanity". Her writing, inter alia, dealt with moral and racial issues and, under the old Nationalist regime in South Africa, produced works such as Burger's Daughter and July's People, which were banned in her home country. This present book was her seventh to be published outside South Africa.