The Soft Voice of the Serpent
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Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
collection by Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt...
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Simon & Schuster
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Stories
- The Soft Voice of the Serpent
- The Catch
- The Kindest Thing to Do
- The Hour and the Years
- The Train From Rhodesia
- A Watcher of the Dead
- Treasures of the Sea
- The Prisoner
- Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet?
- The Amateurs
- A Present For a Good Girl
- La Vie Boheme
- Ah, Woe Is Me
- Another Part of the Sky
- The Umbilical Cord
- The Talisman
- The End of the Tunnel
- The Defeated
- A Commonplace Story
- Monday is Better Than Sunday
- In the Beginning