The Train from Rhodesia Summary
Nadine Gordimer

The Train from Rhodesia Summary

"The Train from Rhodesia" is one of Nadine Gordimer's earliest stories, first published in 1952 in her collection The Soft Voice of the Serpent and Other Stories. The short piece about a train's brief stop in an impoverished African village exhibits the concise complexity that marks much of Gordimer's other work. As a native South African of European heritage, Gordimer has focused much of her writing on the injustice of apartheid as practiced in...

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