Andre Brink (1935 – 2015) was one of South Africa“s most prominent writers and is the author of several novels, including A Dry White Season, Imaginings of Sand, The Rights of Desire, The Other Side of Silence and Philida. He has won South Africa“s most important literay prize, the CNA Award, three times and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His last novel, Philida, was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2012.
16 Ebooks von Andr Brink
Andr Brink: Devil’s Valley
Flip Lochner is a weary and disillusioned newspaper crime reporter. Curious to find out more about the origins of a casual acquaintance, he descends into Devil’s Valley where, like Dante’s Virgil, he …
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Andr Brink: On the Contrary
Estienne Barbier, born in the Loire Valley in 1699, lays claim to service in the armies of the kings of France and Prussia, but he is an inveterate liar, and the truth is less glorious: irate husband …
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Andr Brink: First Life of Adamastor
The First Life of Adamastor has it origins in an act of rescue: what, wondered Andr Brink, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mountains of the Cape? Adamastor, the Tita …
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Andr Brink: Blue Door
The Blue Door is built around one of the oldest questions in storytelling: What if …? What if I return home one day to find, behind a familiar door, an unfamiliar world? What if the people closest …
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Andr Brink: Rights Of Desire
Ruben Oliver’s life is coming adrift from its moorings. He has been obliged to take early retirement from his job as a librarian due to ‚rationalisation‘ and the new political realities of South Afri …
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Andr Brink: Imaginings Of Sand
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 tur …
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Andr Brink: Looking On Darkness
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. Andr Brink panders to no …
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Andr Brink: Act of Terror
`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 T …
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Andr Brink: Rumours Of Rain
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 weeke …
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Andr Brink: Wall Of The Plague
Helping to research her lover’s film on the great plague, Andrea returns to Provence. However, her journey becomes more a trip of personal discovery than one of pure academic research as she begins t …
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Andr Brink: Fork in the Road
This is Andr Brink’s story of a life lived in tumultuous times. He describes with searing honesty his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violenc …
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Andr Brink: Dry White Season
Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way – until his sense of justice is outraged by the death of a man he has known. His friend died at the hands of the police. In …
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Andr Brink: Chain Of Voices
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. Galant, the van der Merwe family‘ …
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Andr Brink: Instant In The Wind
In early 1749 a white woman and a black man are stranded in the wilderness of the South African interior. She is an educated woman, totally helpless in the wilds. He is a runaway slave. They know onl …
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Andr Brink: Philida
The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of slaves. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. Francois has reneged on his promise …
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Andr Brink: Novel
The Postmodernist novel has become famous for the extremes of its narcissistic involvement with language. In this challenging and wide-ranging new study, Andr Brink argues that this self-consciousnes …
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