Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black

This rich story collection will be a reminder to Nadine Gordimer''s countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imaginative power. A woman gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband''s cello; a wife reads her husband''s mood by the scent in the nape of his neck; a newly emigrated couple are divided by visual obsession, he with his native Budapest, she wit...