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Six Feet of the Country

by Nadine Gordimer · 1956

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Seven stories of South Africa deal with a missing body, a mysterious Rhodesian visitor, a pass law protest, a white geologist and his Black secretary, and a pair of childhood sweethearts.

Genre
literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
raceraceMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1950s1950sMore like thisLess of thisAfricaAfricaMore like thisLess of thisSouth AfricaSouth AfricaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 112 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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