Rumours of Rain
Author | : André Brink |
Publisher | : Black Lace |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9780352305916 |
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Author | : André Brink |
Publisher | : Black Lace |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9780352305916 |
Author | : André Philippus Brink |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Afrikaners |
ISBN | : |
Martin Mynhardt seems invincible. Violence surrounds him, yet he remains unscathed: a woman asks him the time, then leaps in front of a train; after a mine riot, he watches hoses sweep scattered body parts off the floor. Just before the shocking violence that brings South African apartheid to an end, Martin decides to return to the family farm for a weekend. A highly successful businessman and Afrikaans Nationalist, he hopes to sell the property to the government in a deal both highly profitable and corrupt. The moment he steps onto the farm, his plans are derailed. The repercussions of a society's endemic violence catch up to him, and shake the relationships that frame his life.
Author | : Andre Brink |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2008-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1402217285 |
Just before the shocking violence that brings South African apartheid to an end, Martin decides to return to the family farm for a weekend. A highly successful businessman and Afrikaans Nationalist, he hopes to sell the property to the government in a deal both highly profitable and corrupt. The moment he steps onto the farm, his plans are derailed. The repercussions of a society's endemic violence catch up to him, and shake the relationships that frame his life.
Author | : André Philippus Brink |
Publisher | : W H Allen |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Afrikaners |
ISBN | : 9780491020053 |
Martin Mynhardt seems invincible. Violence surrounds him, yet he remains unscathed: a woman asks him the time, then leaps in front of a train; after a mine riot, he watches hoses sweep scattered body parts off the floor. Just before the shocking violence that brings South African apartheid to an end, Martin decides to return to the family farm for a weekend. A highly successful businessman and Afrikaans Nationalist, he hopes to sell the property to the government in a deal both highly profitable and corrupt. The moment he steps onto the farm, his plans are derailed. The repercussions of a society's endemic violence catch up to him, and shake the relationships that frame his life. His closest friend, a brilliant, idealistic lawyer, is sentenced to prison for his anti-apartheid "terrorist" activities in part because Martin refused to help him. His son, recently returned from the Angolan war, is in silent revolt against the values of his father and his nation. His mistress, Bea, an intelligent, strong-willed woman who offers Martin the hope of redemption through her own capacity for empathy, is also caught up in the gathering political storm. This is Andre Brink's story of a society on the edge of collapse, spurred to profound self realization.
Author | : André Brink |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2011-12-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1448113628 |
Winter in South Africa - a time of searing drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of the Angolan conflict cast across the scorched bush. Martin Mynhardt, a wealthy Afrikaner, plans a weekend at his old family farm. But his visit coincides with a time of crisis in his personal life. In a few days, the security of a lifetime is destroyed and, with only the uncertain values of his past to guide him, Mynhardt is left to face the wreckage of his future.
Author | : André Brink |
Publisher | : Penguin (Non-Classics) |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140068917 |
Author | : Jake Arnott |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544077792 |
A dazzling, decades-spanning novel that features fictional characters and actual historical figures making their way through a labyrinth that connects WWII spycraft, the occultism of Aleister Crowley, the Jonestown massacre, pulp science fiction, Latin American revolutionaries, and new wave music.
Author | : Andre Brink |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062031430 |
As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, André Brink'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 teacher and his family, as it draws him into a lethal morass of lies, corruption, and murder.
Author | : Knox Mahlaba |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1490731997 |
Back from the Dead: The Rising of an African Spirit is a celebration of life, its different seasons, and the struggle to overcome. It is an anthology consisting of fifty poems; some poems are images of personal struggles, others visualize the celebration of love, and a few are odes to great leaders and historical reflections. The single message this book intends to transfer to the reader is that a sense of self-love and appreciation does a world of good. Throughout the book, references are made to Africa with the sole intention of encouraging people, Africans on the continent and across the Diaspora, to reflect on their rich identity, take responsibility for their self-concept, and to be proud of their heritage in order to inject a greater sense of self-worth and responsibility in their daily lives.
Author | : Sue Kossew |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789042000971 |