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Title: Yawn
Review: This is said to be one of Nadine Gordimer's finest works, and she is a Nobel prize winner, so I hoped for great things when I picked this one out at the bookstore, unfortunately assuming that the Nobel prize would be a guarantee that I would love it. Well, I didn't love it. While indeed a competent storytelling, I don't really regard this as literature. There is not the fire, imagination or creativity one expects, nor the sophistication that should elevate such a work above its peers. I managed to get to the end, but I can't say that I felt or learned anything at all. It makes me wonder if there were political, rather than literary reasons that caused the Nobel comittee to honor this author.
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