A Dry White Season - Softcover

Brink, Andre

4.06

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140068902 ISBN 13: 9780140068900

Publisher: Penguin, 1984

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His sense of justice outraged by the death of a Black friend, white South African schoolteacher Ben Du Toit searches for the truth and challenges the assumptions on which his racist society is founded

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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...

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