The Soft Voice of the Serpent and Beethoven
In one of this author's works, Julie goes to live with the car mechanic Abdu before he abandons Julie to take off to the United States, while in another work Liz debates taking up her husband Max's cause after he drives his car into the ocean. In addition to The Pickup and [?] The Late Bourgeois World, this author of the short story collections The Soft Voice of the Serpent and Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black wrote a novel in which Jacobus leads a funeral procession for a dead man found on Mehring's property. This writer described Rosa and her communist father Lionel in one work, while another novel focuses on the title servant's family, which includes Maureen and Bamford Smales. For 10 points, name this South African author of The Conservationist, The Burgher's Daughter, and July's People.
In one of this author's works, Julie goes to live with the car mechanic Abdu before he abandons Julie to take off to the United States, while in another work Liz debates taking up her husband Max's cause after he drives his car into the ocean.
Nadine {Gordimer}