The First Life of Adamastor - Softcover

Brink, André

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099284553 ISBN 13: 9780099284550

Publisher: Vintage, 2000

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2000 Pages: 144 in Publisher: Vintage THE FIRST LIFE. OF ADAMASTOR has it origins in an act of rescue wondered: what Andre ink. Lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mountains of the Cape Adamastor. the Titan whose body. legend has it. formed the rocks of the Peninsula. first appears in European literature in the sixteenth century - much about the time of the first known contact between seagoing European explorers and the natives of Southern Africa. How ink asks. would that meeting have looked from the landward side What role would the visitors take in the mythology of an utterly different culture. with its own deities. its own accumulated story The result is an extraordinary creation. moving. richly inventive. unashamedly ribald and potentially explosive. Hunting for the source of the fissure that. from that first encounter. ...

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Review:

"A wonderfully entertaining work of fiction" (Mario Vargas Llosa New York Times Book Review)

"A simple love story... A joyful psalm sung through the collective unconscious that unites all people... fun, fresh and firmly recommended... He is a writer of inspired violence and his shifts of viewpoint are thrilling and significant, and deeply honouring to the profession of literature" (The Times)

"[Enjoy] the pleasure of Brink's playful wit and his colonist's skill in surveying an unknown mental landscape" (Independent)

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'Terrifically well-written... André Brink is confidently at home with his myth. The details are fresh, convincing and bawdy' - Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0099284553
• ISBN 13: 9780099284550
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144