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Format: Paperback
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Author:
André Brink
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780749395872
£8.99
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EAN: 9780749395872
Published: 10 Feb 1997
THE BOOK: A narrative counterpoint between two women, two South Africas. Kristien Muller returns from London to her homeland to fulfil a promise. Her grandmother lies on her deathbed unleashing a turmult of myth, legend and brute fact. Confronted by the realities of a land hurtling towards change, Kristien discovers that the present holds its own moments of savagery. A searing panorama of South Africa's experience, reminiscent in its political & imaginative scope of Marquez's One Hundred Years Of Solitude.
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His first post-apartheid novel... A complex cocktail of myths, legends, magic, farce, politics and morals... Powerful and enchanting.
- Focus
Wonderful... About discord and reconciliation: between new and old, black and white, dreams and reality
- The Times
Peter Carey, Garcia Marquez, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Andre Brink must be considered with that class of writer
- The Guardian
Andre Brink was born in South Africa in 1935. He is the author of ten novels, including Looking on Darkness (1974), An Instant in the Wind (1976), Rumours of Rain (1978), A Dry White Season (1979), A Chain of Voices (1982), An Act of Terror (1991) and The First Life of Adamastor (1993). He has won the most important South African literary prize, the CNA Award, three times and his novels have twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, in 1976 and in 1978. In 1980 he received the Martin Luther King Prize, and in France the Prix Medicis Etranger. In 1982 he was made a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur and in 1987 was named Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Andre Brink is Professor of English at the University of Cape Town. He has three sons and a daughter.
