Innocents who end up in bed with terrorists; children and adults entangled in the barbed wire of political events they can't control or understand. In her latest collection of stories, Gordimer revisits old but rich territory--South Africa--and other locations where the balance of order has gone awry. Gordimer's ability to transcend racial and gender barriers comes forth both in the collection as a whole and within individual stories that are told from multiple perspectives, such as ``What Were You Dreaming?'' This volume of fiction burns with the brilliance readers might expect to find only in an anthology. The sophisticated surprise endings found in ``Some Are Born to Sweet Delight'' and ``The Moment the Gun Went Off'' strike at the gut as effectively as the simple parable ``Once Upon a Time,'' which tells of a family caged in by its fear.
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