Crimes of Conscience (African Writers Series)

By Nadine Gordimer

Book Overview

This collection of short stories, set in the author's native Southern Africa, reveals her outstanding ability to pierce the core of the human condition of those, both black and white, living in countries where repression and coercion is the norm.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435906682
• ISBN13: 9780435906689
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

A moving compilation of short stories

Crimes of Conscience was the first contact I had with Gordimer's work. I found these stories to grab my attention- by focusing in on the happenings in fictitious individual's lives she comments in a profound way on life in South Africa before and immediately following apartheid rule. I gave the book four stars rather than five because as you read more and more stories the startling nature of her story telling becomes a little repetative and loses its effect somewhat. After reading this book I was interested enough to pick up more and more of Gordimer's books- she is an excellent writer. Definitely worth reading.