num_pages: 208
description: Apartheid. It's about suffering, about violence. Here are ten stories and autobiographical accounts, by southern African writers of various races. Some of the writers -- Nadine Gordimer, Mark Mathabane, Doris Lessing -- are well-known; all of them deserve to be. Their stories, individually and as a group, create a moving, sometimes shockingly vivid portrait of what it feels like to grow up in a land where racism is the law.Crackling day / Peter Abrahams --The old Chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing --A day in the country / Dan Jacobson --Country lovers / Nadine Gordimer --When the train comes / Zoë Wicomb --The toilet / Gcina Mhlope --The road to Alexandra / Mark Mathabane --A chip of glass ruby / Nadine Gordimer --A farm at Raraba / Ernst Havemann --It's quiet now / Gcina Mhlope
language: English
title: Somehow Tenderness Survives: Stories of Southern Africa
titlecomplete: Somehow Tenderness Survives: Stories of Southern Africa
genres: Africa, Short Stories, Young Adult, Fiction
ratings_count: 85
publisher: HarperTeen