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Joseph O'Neill Reads Nadine Gordimer

The New Yorker: Fiction

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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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