Andre Brink, Author . Sourcebooks $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4022-0866-9
Chris Minnaar is a South African novelist who recounts his many loves in this long, melancholy second-person confession to his dead friend and would-be lover, Rachel. Born to privilege in a wealthy Afrikaner family, Chris is seduced when he is eight
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Andre Brink, Author . Sourcebooks $29.99 (316p) ISBN 978-1-4022-1391-5
Brink's latest novel—essentially a collection of three novellas—is a vividly imagined if claustrophobic chronicle of the lives of three subtly connected men living in contemporary South Africa. The first story is the dreamlike tale...
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Andre Brink, Author Summit Books $24.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74858-6
Enormously ambitious, dauntingly long and written with a profound knowledge of his country's landscape and people, this latest work by the author of A Dry White Season could qualify as the Great South African Novel. By far Brink's most impressive...
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Andre Brink, Author Vintage Books USA $14 (834p) ISBN 978-0-679-74429-0
This enormously ambitious work from the author of A Dry White Season bids to qualify as the Great South African Novel as it narrates the story of a young news photographer turned anti-apartheid terrorist. (Jan.)
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Andre Brink, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (416p) ISBN 978-0-15-100440-9
The South African author of A Dry White Season and Imaginings of Sand is fascinated by obscure corners of his country's history, and has a strongly developed sense of fantasy. These two elements come together in his latest novel, a rich, bawdy and...
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Andre Brink, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-15-100224-5
South Africa as a new nation is barely two years old, and already it has a magnificent, world-class celebratory novel (though it could have done with a more meaningful title). Spirited, compassionate Kristien Muller, who long ago left her native...
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Andre Brink, Author Simon & Schuster $15.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-79907-6
In this searing novella, acclaimed South African novelist Brink tells the tragic love story of a Khoikhoi chieftain leader (a nomadic people, the Khoikhoi were derogatorily called ``Hottentots'' by European colonists) and a white woman left behind...
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Andre Brink, Author Little Brown and Company $22.95 (375p) ISBN 978-0-316-10884-3
South African novelist Brink (A Dry White Season ; An Act of Terror ) seems at first to be working a much lighter, more picaresque vein here than in his usual, more overtly political fiction. The narrator is a French-born soldier of fortune,...
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A December/May romance (ardent on the December side, platonic-but-teasing on the May side) blooms against the backdrop of postapartheid South Africa in Brink's latest offering. Librarian Ruben Olivier, the 65-year-old narrator, was forced into...
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Andre Brink, Author Zoland Books $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-944072-89-9
In essays spanning the turbulent period 1982-97, South African novelist Brink (The Ambassador) explores his country's transformation from racist pariah to multiracial democracy. Brink is primarily concerned here with the role of the writer in an...
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