Nadine Gordimer's first collection of short stories.

Contents:

• Is There Nowhere Else We Can Meet?
• The Soft Voice of the Serpent
• Ah, Woe Is Me
• The Catch
• The Train from Rhodesia
• A Bit of Young Life
• Six Feet of the Country
• Which New Era Would That Be?
• Enemies
• Happy Event
• The Smell of Death and Flowers
• Friday's Footprint
• The Night the Favourite Came Home
• The Bridegroom
• The Last Kiss
• The Gentle Art
• Something for the Time Being
• A Company of Laughing Faces
• Not for Publication
• A Chip of Glass Ruby
• Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants
• The African Magician
• Some Monday for Sure
• Abroad
• Livingstone's Companions
• An Intruder
• Open House
• Rain Queen
• No Place Like
• The Life of the Imagination
• Africa Emergent