Loot (Paperback, New edition)

A startling new work from a Nobel prize-winning author: ten short stories, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. In the title story an earthquake exposes both an ocean bed strewn with treasure among the dead, and the avarice of the town's survivors. In 'The Diamond Mine' a woman remembers her first, passionately erotic experience, hidden, in the company of her parents, with a soldier who may not be alive to remember her. The anopheles mosquito brings death to the saunas and other playgrounds of the developed with in 'The Emissary'. In 'Karma', Gordimer's inventiveness knows no bounds: in five returns to the earthly life, taking on different ages and genders, a disembodied narrator testifies to unfinished business - critically, wittily - and questions the nature of existence.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2004
Authors:	Nadine Gordimer
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7475-6538-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories Promotions
LSN:	0-7475-6538-4
Barcode:	9780747565383

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