She grew up reading the great realists of 19th- and early 20th-century fiction, and the writings of Tolstoy, Turgenev and Dostoevsky impacted her thinking as well.
Her life in Johannesburg, the plight of black workers, the mining class background - all can be seen in her novels and short stories.
Soft Voice of the Serpent, a short story by Nadine Gordimer tells of the most bizarre relationship which a man, who has lost his leg, has with a wounded locust. When the man who is still trying to accept his own injury, notices that the locust has also been handicapped by the loss of a limb, he feels an instant connection towards the locust.
(source - Fantastic fiction blog )
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