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Deze Zuid-Afrikaanse romanschrijver, die zowel in het Afrikaans als in het Engels schreef, was een sleutelfiguur in de Afrikaanse literaire beweging Die Sestigers. Deze beweging had tot doel het Afrikaans te gebruiken als taal van protest tegen de apartheidregering en tegelijkertijd hedendaagse Engelse en Franse literaire invloeden te integreren. Brink's vroege romans verkenden vaak het alomtegenwoordige apartheidsbeleid, terwijl zijn latere werken zich bezighielden met de complexe problemen die zich voordeden in post-apartheid Zuid-Afrika. Hij schuwde er niet voor terug om controversiële onderwerpen aan te snijden, waardoor zijn werk tot de eerste Afrikaanse boeken behoorde die door de regering werden gecensureerd.







"A Land Apart is an excellent collection of short stories and poetry by different South African writers. It is divided into three different sections each devoted to the main groups of South Africa. This book gives a clear glimpse of life in South Africa during apartheid through the eyes of three different groups. It is a clear depiction of the times and struggles of all South Africans during their struggle. This book is excellent for anyone wanting an inside view of South Africa during apartheid."--Amazon.com viewed June 17, 2020
It is 1825 and high in the mountains of South Africa a group of slavesstand accused of the murder of their owner, Nicolass van der Merwe, a wealthy Afrikaner farmer.
Based on the lives of Elisabeth Larsson and Adam Mantoor
In this magical novel that re-imagines stories from nine generations of South African women, ”histories, half-truths, myths, and fables weave themselves around an exile’s return to a nation on the brink of political transformation” (Boston Sunday Globe).
Banned for many years in the author's native South Africa, Looking on Darkness tells the story of actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover.
`A massive apartheid thriller centred on a plot to blow up none other than the State President outside the gates of Cape Town Castle. Brink at his robust and imaginative best' - Adam Low, Daily Telegraph. A brave masterpiece from Booker Prize shortlisted, award-winning author Andre Brink.
As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, André 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. Haunted by new questions and desperate to believe that the man's death was a tragic accident, Du Toit undertakes an investigation into the terrible affair—a quest for the truth that will have devastating consequences for the teacher and his family, as it draws him into a lethal morass of lies, corruption, and murder.
Winter in South Africa - a time of searing drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of the Angolan conflict cast across the scorched bush. Martin Mynhardt, a wealthy Afrikaner, plans a weekend at his old family farm. But his visit coincides with a time of crisis in his personal life. In a few days, the security of a lifetime is destroyed and, with only the uncertain values of his past to guide him, Mynhardt is left to face the wreckage of his future.
First edition ex-library hardcover with jacket in protective film covering. Upper leading corners and spine ends are slightly worn on jacket and hardcover. Stained and grubby page block, particularly severe on foot, but only visible on BEP and lower edge of FEP, which also has a stamp. No other signs of library markings; pages are clean and sound and text remains clear throughout. TS