A Dry White Season - Softcover

Brink, Andre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061138630 ISBN 13: 9780061138638

Publisher: William Morrow & Company, 2006

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub the Date: September. 2006 Pages: 320 in Publisher by: Harper Perennial As startling and powerful as the when first published more than two decades ago. Andr ink'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 teach...

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Review:

"Excellent...[a] harrowing and surprising story. The ultimate power of the book comes from an authoritative meditation on the traps that open up for someone who answers to himself before society" (Scotsman)

"The revolt of the reasonable...far more deadly than any amount of shouting from the housetops" (Guardian)

"Impossible to recommend too highly" (Time Out)

"Books like this one succeed...in drawing our emotions into politics. What will remain is the plain bravery of his characters...their struggle has found an honest chronicler" (Daily Telegraph)

"Andre Brink's writing is built on conviction...A Dry White Season describes the triumph of tyranny" (The Times)

Book Description:

A man investigating the death of a friend discovers the dangers of curiosity...

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0061138630
• ISBN 13: 9780061138638
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320