A SOLDIER'S EMBRACE by Nadine Gordimer Viking; 144 pages; $8.95
After a cease-fire in some unnamed southern African nation, the wife of a liberal lawyer finds herself in the midst of a crowd. She throws one arm around a young white mercenary, the other around a black soldier, and kisses them. Like the protagonist in the title story of this new collection, Nadine Gordimer has been caught by historical confrontations and gone on to embrace them. For more than 25 years, the native South African has been writing abidingly clear-eyed, humane fiction that comprehends...
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