| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
177 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
Thirteen stories demonstrating how people's origins, inheritances and histories?and the loss of them?are inescapable. A white academic descendant of a London diamond prospector who visits his forebear's mine in South Africa. A grieving widow of Allesverloren (or All Is Lost) seeks out her husband's former lover to unearth a message from him. A daughter finds an unsettling letter among the effects of her late mother. Cultural inheritance shadows the marriage of a Hungarian couple. |
| Contents |
Beethoven was one-sixteenth black -- Tape measure -- Dreaming of the dead -- Frivolous woman -- Gregor -- Safety procedures -- Mother tongue -- Allesverloren -- History -- Beneficiary -- Alternative endings -- First sense -- Second sense -- Third sense. |
| Subject |
Short stories.
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| ISBN |
9780374109820 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0374109826 hardcover alkaline paper |
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