MEMBER BLOG TAG: nadine gordimer
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:18PM | | | | Best Ticket in Town | Tags: World Voices, Nadine Gordimer, Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai, Steve Martin, Neil Gaiman, Alain Mabanckou, Saadi Youssef, Tatyana Tolstaya, Don DeLillo, Pia Tafdrup
| | | In an age of mass migration,when human herds cross borders in flight from conflict, poverty, disease, violence, what is home? How and where do we find it?
Nadine Gordimer, the penultimate reader in last night's PEN readings on "Writing Home," spoke of the millions of refugees from wars and conflicts. Silver-haired, dressed in gray, with a long white-bordered stole, she drew the photographers from the shadows at Town Hall. Just before reading the first sentence of her powerful story "The Ultimate Safari," she said, "Forget about me, the old woman. It's being narrated by an eleven year old girl." Her narrator's mother has disappeared and her father is in the civil war in Mozambique. With her grandparents and two brothers, she makes the... | | | | | |
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