{"product_id":"2940169916775","title":"Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of new stories, Nadine Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the fearless insight that is the hallmark of her writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the title story, a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid activist embarks on an unadmitted pursuit of the possibilities for his own racial identity in his great-grandfather¿s fortune-hunting interlude of living rough on diamond diggings in South Africa, his young wife far away in London. ¿Dreaming of the Dead¿ conjures up a lunch in a New York Chinese restaurant where Susan Sontag and Edward Saïd return in surprising new avatars as guests in the dream of a loving friend. The historian in ¿History¿ is a parrot who confronts people with the scandalizing voice reproduction of quarrels and clandestine love-talk on which it has 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 different resolution, arrived at by the three senses: sight, sound, and smell. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114816979184,"sku":"2940169916775","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169916775_p0.jpg?v=1769903063","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169916775","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}