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    The Rights Of Desire

    Andre Brink

    Ruben Oliver’s life is coming adrift from its moorings. and his housekeeper, Magrieta, with whom he has a shared history that goes back more than half his life. When Tessa…

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    An Act of Terror

    Andre Brink

    A novel dealing with the dark undercurrents of South African politics. Thomas and Nina, deeply in love and the children of wealthy Afrikaners, are at the centre of a plot…

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    A Fork in the Road

    Andre Brink

    Andre Brink grew up in the deep interior of South Africa, as his magistrate father moved from one dusty dorp to the next. This title tells the story of his…

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    Imaginings of Sand

    Andre Brink

    Kristien’s grandmother is dying and she finds herself leaving London to fly back to her native South Africa. Her grandmother is determined to hand down her treasury of family history…

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    A Chain of Voices

    Andre Brink

    It is 1825 and high in the mountains of South Africa a group of slaves stand accused of the murder of their owner, Nicolass van der Merwe, a wealthy Afrikaner…

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    Rumours of Rain

    Andre Brink

    Winter in South Africa - a time of drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of conflict in Angola cast across the scorched bush. A wealthy Afrikaner’s weekend visit…

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    Devil’s Valley

    Andre Brink

    Flip Lochner is a weary and disillusioned newspaper crime reporter. Curious to find out more about the origins of a casual acquaintance, he descends into Devil’s Valley where, like Dante’s…

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    The Other Side of Silence

    Andre Brink

    As a small child in wintry Bremen, Hanna dreams about escaping from years of abuse in the orphanage and in service. She joins a shipload of young women transported in…

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    Before I Forget

    Andre Brink

    It is on New Year’s 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…

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    Praying Mantis

    Andre Brink

    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…

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    Philida

    Andre Brink

    The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of slaves. Francois has reneged on his promise to set her free and his father has…

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    Philida

    Andre Brink,Andre Brink

    The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of slaves. Francois has reneged on his promise to set her free and his father has…

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    Looking on Darkness

    Andre Brink

    Banned for many years in the author’s native South Africa, this novel tells the story of black actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white…

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    Devil’s Valley

    Andre Brink

    Fusing invention and reality, magic realism and earthy humour, Lochner’s adventures in the valley centre around the journey he undertakes to discover the truth about the elusive and erotic figure…

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    The Other Side of Silence

    Andre Brink

    As a small child in wintry Bremen, Hanna dreams about escaping from years of abuse in the orphanage and in service. She joins a shipload of young women transported in…

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    A Dry White Season

    Andre Brink

    Ben Du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man whose sense of justice is outraged by the death at the hands of the police of a man knew. As Ben…

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    A Dry White Season

    Andre Brink

    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…

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    Imaginings of Sand

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    THE BOOK: A narrative counterpoint between two women, two South Africas. Confronted by the realities of a land hurtling towards change, Kristien discovers that the present holds its own moments…

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    The Politics and New Humanism of Andre Brink

    Isidore Diala

    This book appraises Andre Brink’s reputation as an internationally acclaimed commentator on the enormities of the apartheid state and one of South Africa’s foremost novelists.

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    Contrary: Critical Responses to the Novels of Andre Brink

    Karina Magdalena Szczurek,Ed, Willie Burger

    This compilation brings together twenty essays (ten in English and ten in Afrikaans) on the work of one of South Africa’s most distinguished, prolific and internationally best recognised writers. The…

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    The Novel: Language and Narrative from Cervantes to Calvino

    Andre Brink,Andri Brink,Andra(c) Brink,Andr Brink,Richard Delgado

    Brink, a South African novelist, argues that the self-consciousness and narcissistic involvement with language associated with the Postmodern novel has been a defining characteristic of the novel since its inception…

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    A Chain of Voices

    Andre Philippus Brink

    On a farm near the Cape Colony in the early nineteenth century, a slave rebellion kills three and leaves eleven others condemned to death.

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    Before I Forget

    Andre Philippus Brink

    From a world-class writer comes a remarkable new novel about love in all its forms. Erotic, searingly honest, elegiac, and profoundly moving, Before I Forget is the story of a…

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    Rumors of Rain

    Andre Philippus Brink

    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…

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    An Instant in the Wind

    Andre Philippus Brink

    This, then is the stunning story of their trek together, how they find in each other their mutual need and humanity, and finally how their days together turn into an…

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    ‘n Droe Wit Seisoen: Roman

    Andre P. Brink

    In die middel staan Ben du Toit, An doodgewone, onskadelike, onmerkwaardige mens . Maar dan word sy ingebore sin vir regverdigheid geskok deur die gewettigde moord op sy swart tuinier…

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    Bidsprinkaan

    Andre P. Brink

    Afrika se eeue oue magiesheid en hartstog vorm die agtergrond van die intiem verweefde komedie en tragedie in hierdie roman. Dit is gebaseer op die historiese figuur Kupido Kakkerlak (c…

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    Philida: ‘n Slaweroman

    Andre P Brink

    Dit verg die jong slavin Philida groot moed om by die Slawebeskermer op Stellenbosch ‘n klag teen haar baas te gaan le. Cornelis Brink, op wie se plaas sy grootgeword…

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    You make me possible: The love letters of Karina M. Szczurek & Andre Brink

    Karina M. Szczurek

    Selected and edited by Karina M. Szczurek, the love letters between herself and the acclaimed writer Andre Brink tell in detail the story of how they met in Austria in…

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    Time and Alterity in South African Writing: Andre Brink, J.M. Coetzee, and Zakes Mda Revisited

    Paulina Grzeda

    Reevaluating neoliberalism’s temporal regimes of growth and decline, the book invites us to think about temporality experimentally. Focusing on works by Brink, Coetzee and Mda, it studies South African revisioning…

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    The Past Coming to Roost in the Present - Historicising History in Four Post-Apartheid South African Novels: Andre P. Brink"s Imaginings

    Adrian Knapp

    Since the final demise of apartheid in 1994, South Africa has undergone dramatic changes in the political, social, and economic sphere. It is not surprising that these changes have also…

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    Radiance of Being: Pointers to Self-Knowing

    Rodney Stevens

    This collection of pointers by Rodney Stevens contains a random series of terse, bold statements about our true nature, each one of them hitting home the truth of what we…

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    J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory

    Derek Attridge,Louise Bethlehem

    This work draws on a wide range of theoretical ideas and approaches to illuminate Coetzee’s texts including: deconstruction and the ‘school of singularity’, ethics and power, gender studies, queer theory…

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    Paris on the Brink: The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dali, Simone de Beauvoir, Andre Gide, Sylvia Beach, Leon Blum, and Their Friends

    Mary McAuliffe

    Paris on the Brink vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s. The decade was marked by violence at home and the rise of Hitler abroad, even as…

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