Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories

A new collection of short fiction by the Nobel Prize-winning author addresses issues of race, identity, politics, and more in the title story about an anti-apartheid activist and academic who pursues questions of his own racial identity; "Dreaming of the Dead," in which Susan Sontag and Edward Said return in the dreams of a friend; and "Alternative Endings," about how writers choose to end their stories. Reprint.