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In this collection of new tales, Nadine Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, ram, sexuality, and love with the fearless understanding that is the hallmark of her writing. In the subject story, a middle-aged academics who had been an antiapartheid activist embarks on an unadmitted quest for the options for his own racial identification in his great-grandfather's fortune-hunting interlude of living difficult on gemstone diggings in South Africa, his young better half a long way away in London. "Thinking of the Dead" conjures up a lunch break in a New York Chinese restaurant where Susan Sontag and Edward Saïd go back in surprising new avatars as guests in the imagine a loving friend. The historian in "Background" is a parrot who confronts people with the scandalizing voice reproduction of quarrels and clandestine love chat on which they have eavesdropped. "Alternative Endings" considers the way writers make arbitrary choices in how to end stories - and offers three, each relating the same situation but with a new resolution, attained by three senses: perception, reasonable, and smell.
