THE TRAIN FROM RHODESIA - NADIME GORDIMER
THE TRAIN FROM RHODESIA - NADIME GORDIMER Train from Rhodesi is one of Nadine Gordimer’s earliest stories, first published in 1952 in her collection The Soft Voice of the Serpent and Other Stories. The short piece about a train’s brief stop in an impoverished African village exhibits the concise complexity that marks much of Gordimer’s other work. As a native South African of European heritage, Gordimer has focused much of her writing on the injustice of apartheid as practiced in the country. Though not an overtly political story, “The Train from Rhodesia” depicts the prejudicial attitudes that caused apartheid and reinforced it once racial segregation became law. Critics have praised the story fo...