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An Act of Terrorby Andre BrinkISBN 0436200511 (0-436-20051-1)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Ambassadorby Andre BrinkISBN 0006541569 (0-00-654156-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Before I Forgetby Andre BrinkISBN 0099477521 (0-09-947752-1)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Before I Forget'Book summary:From a world-class writer a remarkable new novel about love in all its forms.
Chris Minaar is a distinguished South African writer; an old writer, a writer who has lost whatever gift he had for writing. It is on New Years Eve, courtesy of his stalled car, that he meets Rachel, a young sculptress, who becomes the great love of his life, a love greater for being unfulfilled.
Having believed that his remaining function should be to comfort his mother, more than a century old now, he finds himself captivated by Rachel and drawn into a close friendship with her photographer husband George, a friendship that inevitably threatens this precarious triangular relationship.
Woven through this is the story of his life and of a lifetime of loving many women including brief affairs, extended affairs, a marriage; intensely carnal encounters and tender attachments. From Daphne, the troubled dancer, to Bonnie, his authoritarian fathers secretary, and Grethe, who arranges for her many lovers to meet at a party in her absence, these women define and inform his life.
As it becomes clear that this book is the final writing act of Chriss creative life, so we understand that the recollection of these many loves is an attempt to bring order to an otherwise chaotic existence. Erotic, searingly honest, elegiac and profoundly moving, Before I Forget is the history of a life set against the history of a nation, and the history of a transforming love.
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The Devil's Valleyby Andre BrinkISBN 0099273128 (0-09-927312-8)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Valley'Book summary:Flip Lochner--embittered boozer, self-described loser, burnt-out crime reporter, would-be historian, failed husband and father--finds himself on the farthest edge of civilization one day, descending on foot into a region that lies so deep within the walls of wild mountains it is all but impossible to reach. The Devil's Valley has been home for 160 years to a breakaway sect of inbred Boers shut off from the rest of the world, and Lochner has come to dig into their stories, to establish their history, to know their truth.
With Devil's Valley, South African writer André Brink, author of A Dry White Season, takes the reader on a wild ride into all the dark places of human nature that people most like to avoid. He makes a landscape and social history of these dark places as he brings his protagonist face to face with an agrarian community sternly committed to keeping outsiders out and inner secrets in. It's a place where dream worlds, death worlds, and this world blur and blend, where God and the Devil daily wrestle for the souls of the inhabitants, where simple human dignity is all but out of reach. What is history in such a place? What is truth? "The problem is that I have no bloody way of making sure what I have to show for my efforts," Lochner muses on his experience. "Statements, testimonies, accounts, or just a damn handful of ravings?"
Devil's Valley asks the reader to wonder about his or her own history, especially those parts we all like to leave out yet mutter silently to ourselves, the parts that skitter through our own moonlit night lives accompanied by owls and baboons. --Schuyler Ingle [via]
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A Dry White Seasonby Andre BrinkISBN 0061138630 (0-06-113863-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dry White Season'Book summary:Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way - until his sense of justice is outraged by the death of a man he has known. His friend died at the hands of the police. In the beginning it appears a straightforward matter, an unfortunate error that can be explained and put right. But as Ben investigates further he finds that his curiosity becomes labelled rebellion - and for a rebel there is no way back. [via]
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- A Dry White Season: ISBN 0140068902 (0-14-006890-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - The Dry White Season: ISBN 0006540147 (0-00-654014-7)
Softcover, Zondervan - A Dry White Season: ISBN 035230703X (0-352-30703-X)
Softcover, Star Publishing Company - A Dry White Season: ISBN 0061138630 (0-06-113863-0)
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- A Dry White Season: ISBN 0140068902 (0-14-006890-2)
First Life of Adamastorby Andre BrinkISBN 0099284553 (0-09-928455-3)
Softcover, Random House
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An Instant in the Windby Andre BrinkISBN 0006540120 (0-00-654012-0)
Softcover, Fontana
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Islandsby Andre Brink , Andre Philippus BrinkISBN 015101115X (0-15-101115-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Islands'Book summary:This novel of epic proportions from South Africa, set between 1650 and 1710, covers the first fifty years of the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope. Beautifully rendered, this is a world and a time never before dealt with in fiction-a period when powerful colonizers took over the lands of Hottentot tribes, exposing aborigines for the first time to Western eyes and Western ways. Through the life stories of seven men-all involved with and defined in one way or another by Pieternella, the beautiful daughter of the first mixed marriage of the new colony-we gain an understanding of the vast historical forces at work.[via]
Teeming with characters, rich with lived experience, gripping in its unexpected turns, Islands is a story of greed, power, war, courage, and international intrigue, at once a meticulously researched portrait of the age and a great adventure story.More editions of Islands:
Looking on Darkness: A Novelby Andre Brink , Andre Philippus BrinkISBN 0006540112 (0-00-654011-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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The Novel : Language and Narrative from Cervantes to Calvinoby Andre Brink , Andre Philippus BrinkISBN 0333684095 (0-333-68409-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Publishers Limited
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On the Contraryby Andre BrinkISBN 0316108847 (0-316-10884-7)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Other Side of Silenceby Andre BrinkISBN 0156029642 (0-15-602964-2)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Side of Silence'Book summary:With years of abuse behind her and a bleak future ahead, a young German woman dreams of her country's colony in South-West Africa. When she learns of the women being transported to the colony to attend to the needs of male settlers, Hanna X takes the leap.[via]
In Africa she is confronted with the harsh realities of colonial life. For resisting the advances of a German officer, she is banished to Frauenstein, a phantasmagoric outpost that is at once a "prison, nunnery, brothel, and shithouse." When the drunken excesses of visiting soldiers threaten the young girl who has become her only companion, Hanna revolts.
Mounting a ragtag army of women and native victims of brutality, she sets out on an epic journey to take on the German Reich. Combining the history of colonialism with the myths of Africa, this is an exquisitely written tale of suffering, violence, revenge, and, simply, love.More editions of The Other Side of Silence:
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Praying Mantisby Andre BrinkISBN 0099488949 (0-09-948894-9)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Praying Mantis'Book summary:A magical novel from a world class writer about a remarkable historical figure.
In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of the soap-boiler Anna, and under the influence of the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London Missionary Society, Cupido is made the first Khoi or Hottentot missionary ordained at the Cape of Good Hope.
Received into the fold of the Church, Cupido passionately turns against all his early beliefs. After being drawn into the fierce struggle between the missionaries and the Dutch colonists, he rises to some prominence and is appointed as missionary in a remote and arid region in the North-western Cape. But this also marks the beginning of his decline, as the Society abandons him to his fate. One by one, the members of his congregation disappear into the desert, so that in the end, abandoned even by his wife and children, he is left to preach to the stones and thorn trees and tortoises, returning to the dream-world of his people.
In a heady mixture of comedy and tragedy, the real and the magical, and immersed in the ancient, earthy, African world of magic and dreams, Praying Mantis explores through the historical figure of Cupido Cockroach the origins of racial tension in the shadowlands between myth and history.
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Rumours of Rainby Andre BrinkISBN 0006540139 (0-00-654013-9)
Softcover, Fontana
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States of Emergencyby Andre BrinkISBN 0006543197 (0-00-654319-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Wall of the Plagueby Andre BrinkISBN 0099285398 (0-09-928539-8)
Softcover, Random House
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