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Joseph O'Neill Reads Nadine Gordimer

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Story of an Illegal Immigrant in Working Conditions

The story was published in 1962. Do you feel or did your students feel that this has resonance now? There's a sort of anachronistic sort of dimension to this story, which I suppose we could talk about," he says. "It complicates the reader's relationship with his or her own society and power"

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