''Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black'' is a book of short stories by

Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer (20 November 192313 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writin ...

, published by

Bloomsbury Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions. Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...

. Reviewing the collection in '' The New York Times'',

Siddhartha Deb Siddhartha Deb (born 1970) is an Indian author who was born in Meghalaya and grew up in Shillong in northeastern India. He was educated in India and at Columbia University, US. Deb began his career in journalism as a sports journalist in Calcu ...

said: "As she always has, Gordimer offers her readers a rare combination of intimacy and transcendence". Jonathan Gibbs wrote in '' The Independent'': "In her 84th year, Nadine Gordimer has produced a remarkable 10th collection. They show none of the "audacity" Richard Ford called for in his recent anthology of American short stories. Instead, what they show is tact: a quality that seems bound up in Gordimer's decades of experience. There are stories here that a 30-year-old could not have thought to write, let alone written."Jonathan Gibbs, "The sentimental parrot, the gay fling and other stories of human experience" (review)
''The Independent'', December 12, 2007.

Publication

Many of the stories in the compilation have been published elsewhere and are available online. Some of these are listed below.

– ''Guardian'', December 4, 2004
"Mother Tongue"
– ''New Statesman'', January 1, 2005
"The First Sense"
– ''The New Yorker'', December 18, 2006
"A Beneficiary"
– ''The New Yorker'', May 21, 2007.

References

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