num_pages: 400
description: An extraordinary anthology of literary essays by the Booker Prize-winning author of In the Heart of the Country presents twenty-six pieces on books and writing, including "What is a Classic?" and studies of Daniel Defoe, Ivan Turgenev, Kafka, Joseph Brodsky, Salman Rushdie, Nadine Gordimer, and other notable authors. 15,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Stranger Shores: Literary Essays 1986-1999
titlecomplete: Stranger Shores: Literary Essays 1986-1999
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Criticism, Essays, Nobel Prize, South Africa, Writing, Literary Criticism, Africa, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 352
publisher: Viking Adult