Something Out There
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the shadow of apartheid's iron grip on South Africa, Nadine Gordimer's Something Out There presents a masterful collection of short stories and a novella that lay bare the fault lines of a society fracturing under the weight of racial injustice and moral compromise. The title novella chronicles a band of guerrilla saboteurs — Black and white — who hide in an abandoned smallholding outside Johannesburg while planning a strike against a power station, their mission unfolding in parallel with suburban hysteria over an unidentified creature prowling the neighbourhood. Gordimer weaves these narratives together with surgical precision, transforming what might seem like a thriller premise into a devastating political allegory. A Nobel Prize-winning author at the height of her powers, Gordimer commands the short story form with an authority that few writers of the 20th century can match, illuminating the intimate human costs of systemic oppression through precise, unflinching prose. Each story in the collection uncovers a different face of South African life — the silences between lovers of different races, the casual brutality of the privileged, the quiet heroism of the dispossessed — leaving the reader to wonder what other creatures, seen and unseen, still prowl the edges of a society on the brink of catastrophe.
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Format: Hardback
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the shadow of apartheid's iron grip on South Africa, Nadine Gordimer's Something Out There presents a masterful collection of short stories and a novella that lay bare the fault lines of a society fracturing under the weight of racial injustice and moral compromise. The title novella chronicles a band of guerrilla saboteurs — Black and white — who hide in an abandoned smallholding outside Johannesburg while planning a strike against a power station, their mission unfolding in parallel with suburban hysteria over an unidentified creature prowling the neighbourhood. Gordimer weaves these narratives together with surgical precision, transforming what might seem like a thriller premise into a devastating political allegory. A Nobel Prize-winning author at the height of her powers, Gordimer commands the short story form with an authority that few writers of the 20th century can match, illuminating the intimate human costs of systemic oppression through precise, unflinching prose. Each story in the collection uncovers a different face of South African life — the silences between lovers of different races, the casual brutality of the privileged, the quiet heroism of the dispossessed — leaving the reader to wonder what other creatures, seen and unseen, still prowl the edges of a society on the brink of catastrophe.