As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, Andre Brink's classic novel, A Dry White Season, is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance, the human condition, and the heavy price of morality.
Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state-sanctioned apartheid. A simple, apolitical man, he believes in the essential fairness of the South African government and its policies--until the sudden arrest and subsequent "suicide" of a black janitor from Du Toit's school....
As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, Andre Brink's classic novel, A Dry White Season, is an unfli...
When expatriate Afrikaner Kristien Muller hears of her grandmother's impending death, she ends her self-imposed exile in London and returns to the South Africa she thought she'd escaped. But irrevocable change is sweeping the land, and reality itself seems to be in flux as the country stages its first democratic elections. Kristien's Ouma Kristina herself is dying because of the upheavals: a terrorist attack on her isolated mansion has terminally injured her. As Kristien keeps vigil by her grandmother's sickbed, Ouma tells Kristien stories of nine generations of women in the family, stories...
When expatriate Afrikaner Kristien Muller hears of her grandmother's impending death, she ends her self-imposed exile in London and returns to the Sou...
When Flip Lochner, a seedy, tired journalist fleeing a failed marriage, sees a beautiful woman with four breasts in Devil's Valley, he thinks it's a mirage. But then a man called Lukas Death stands before him. So begins Lochner's search for "the truth" first hinted at by a young student in Cape Town who was mysteriously killed. Lochner meets Lukas Death's clan, where righteousness prevails by day and depravity by night, where punishment for misdemeanors is summary, yet brutal murderers walk unscathed. Nothing in Devil's Valley is as it seems: the supernatural is an ingredient of every day,...
When Flip Lochner, a seedy, tired journalist fleeing a failed marriage, sees a beautiful woman with four breasts in Devil's Valley, he thinks it's a m...
"The novel, Brink argues, is not about representation but the self-conscious play of language. From its inception, he suggests, the genre has been about the act of writing and self-reflection. This thesis is not new but is part of the currency of postmodern literary theory. Brink, himself a noted South African novelist, the author of some 12 books, including A Dry White Season (1984), and a university professor, brings the insight of an insider. He surveys 15 celebrated novels, historically arranged from Don Quixote and La Princesse de Cleves to A.S. Byatt's...
"The novel, Brink argues, is not about representation but the self-conscious play of language. From its inception, he suggests, the genre has been ...
With years of abuse behind her and a bleak future ahead, a young German woman dreams of her country's colony in South-West Africa. When she learns of the women being transported to the colony to attend to the needs of male settlers, Hanna X takes the leap. In Africa she is confronted with the harsh realities of colonial life. For resisting the advances of a German officer, she is banished to Frauenstein, a phantasmagoric outpost that is at once a "prison, nunnery, brothel, and shithouse." When the drunken excesses of visiting soldiers threaten the young girl who has become her only...
With years of abuse behind her and a bleak future ahead, a young German woman dreams of her country's colony in South-West Africa. When she learns of ...
Banned for many years in the author's native South Africa, this novel tells the story of black actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover. Andre Brink was twice nominated for the Booker Prize.
Banned for many years in the author's native South Africa, this novel tells the story of black actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murde...
It is 1825 and high in the mountains of South Africa a group of slaves stand accused of the murder of their owner, Nicolass van der Merwe, a wealthy Afrikaner farmer. Galant, the van der Merwe family's chief hand, is held leader of the murderous band.
It is 1825 and high in the mountains of South Africa a group of slaves stand accused of the murder of their owner, Nicolass van der Merwe, a wealthy A...
Andrea, a coloured expatriate from the Cape, comes to Provence to research the background to her lover Paul's film on the Great Plague. Mandla, a fellow South African and black activist, travels with her; his intense convictions make her question her own life and beliefs.
Andrea, a coloured expatriate from the Cape, comes to Provence to research the background to her lover Paul's film on the Great Plague. Mandla, a fell...
Andre Brink's novella has its origins in an act of rescue: what, he wondered, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mountains of the Cape? Adamastor is the Titan whose body, legend has it, formed the rocks.
Andre Brink's novella has its origins in an act of rescue: what, he wondered, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mounta...
A novel dealing with the dark undercurrents of South African politics. Thomas and Nina, deeply in love and the children of wealthy Afrikaners, are at the centre of a plot to assassinate the President. The author also wrote A Dry White Season and has twice been a runner-up for the Booker Prize.
A novel dealing with the dark undercurrents of South African politics. Thomas and Nina, deeply in love and the children of wealthy Afrikaners, are at ...
