Imaginings Of Sand - Softcover

Brink, André

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749395877 ISBN 13: 9780749395872

Publisher: Vintage, 1997

Synopsis

Andre Brink has had a long career as a South African novelist, one that has provided him a forum for voicing his opposition to apartheid. Imaginings of Sand depicts the country as it makes the transition to democracy, just as Kristien Muller returns from self-imposed exile to the bedside of her dying grandmother, Ouma Kristina. At age 103 matriarchal Ouma is a fountain of family history and white South African legend, and to her grandaughter she passes on tales--magically unreal at times--that link the oppression suffered by women and blacks. While immersed in these fables of memory and emotion, Kristien must also deal with the current reality: a hostile family and authorities discomfited by the impending transition of power.

About this title

Product Description:

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.

Review:

"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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0749395877
• ISBN 13: 9780749395872
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368