An Instant in the Wind
Language: English
Published by A Star Book Published By the Paperback Division of WH Allen, 1980
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Redruth Book Shop, Cornwall, United KingdomRedruth Book Shop
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Condition: Used - Good
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Good condition paperback no DJ. Front cover creased a little. Pages are browning with age. A white woman and a black man are stranded, isolated in the wilderness of the South African interior. The year is 1749. She is a cultured, well-bred lady, totally helpless in the wilds. He is a runaway slave, the lowest of the low in society's eyes. Civilization beckons, but they have only each other. There's a long trek ahead.
Seller Inventory # 006601
- Title
- An Instant in the Wind
- Author
- Brink, Andr?
- Publisher
- A Star Book Published By the Paperback Division of WH Allen
- Publication year
- 1980
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0352306904
- ISBN 13
- 9780352306906
- Dimensions
- 12mo - over 5¾" - 8¾" Tall
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From the Back Cover
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize?&
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An Instant in the Wind is the passionate story of an escaped slave and a white woman lost in the African wilderness, and the unexpected love that flowers between them.&
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&?Brink describes &?calamities and absurdities of the apartheid system with a cold lucidity that in no way interferes with high emotion and daring flights of the imagination.&?&?&
-Mario Vargas Llosa, New York Times Book Review&
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&?It is difficult to see how any South African novelist will be able to surpass the honesty of this novel or the real courage-both as artist and as [a] political man-which enabled Brink to write it.&?&
-World Literature Today&
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&?Andr?? Brink has gained a reputation in this country and in his native South Africa as a novelist unafraid to tackle the controversial subjects of mixed-race love affairs and marriages, of the injustices of apartheid, or racism in all its myriad forms.&?&
-Book World&
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&?The subject is important and the novelistic achievement impressive.&?&
-Library Journal&
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&?Tales of upper class women and primitive men combating the wilderness are nothing new. But I know of no other as honest, as beautifully told or as sad as this one.&?&
-Sunday Plain Dealer&
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&?An Instant in the Wind stands with the best of Alan Paton.&?&
-Cleveland Plain Dealer&
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Andr?? Brink is one of South Africa&'s most eminent novelists. He is the author of seventeen works of fiction, has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is anoutspoken recorder of South Africa&'s turbulent history, from the days of apartheid to the present.&
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