A startling new work: ten stories, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. An earthquake exposes both an ocean bed strewn with treasure among the dead and the avarice of the town's survivors. A woman remembers her first, passionately erotic experience with a soldier who may not be alive to remember her. One of Europe's aliens visits the grave of the politician he was paid to assassinate. Gordimer's inventiveness knows no bounds.
'The stories are wry and wary, and the common thread is conflict as cultures or generations, desires or ideologies, clash irreconcilably... perfect, lyrical prose'
Sunday Telegraph
'Loot is typically Gordimer: intelligent, open-eyed, candid and formidable... Cool, exact, and as unnerving to read as they were intended to be, these glimpses of lives unsettle and provoke, offer no easy reassurances they're not meant to' Irish Times
'Ten fiercely brilliant short fictions... Gordimer turns an uncompromising eye on to elements of contemporary life that are endlessly subject to compromise... They are uncomfortable stories, even savage at times, but richly rewarding' Financial Times
Daring and experimental ... gentle and devastating in its acute observation' Sunday Tribune