Jump and Other Stories Summary
Nadine Gordimer

Jump and Other Stories Summary

Jump and Other Stories consists of sixteen pieces of short fiction. Most are set in The Republic of South Africa before the end of the Apartheid. Even those set elsewhere, such as fictional places or unnamed African nations, contain some references to racial inequality or political oppression of ethnic groups.

The first story and the one mentioned in the book's title, "Jump," tells of a former counter-revolutionary who has turned himself...

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