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A Fork in the Road by Andre Brink
Category: Biography Memoir
Andre Brink grew up in the deep interior of South Africa, as his magistrate father moved from one dusty dorp to the next. With searing honesty he describes his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence. From an early age he found in storytelling t ...Show more
A Fork in the Road by Andre Brink
Category: Biography
Andre Brink grew up in the deep interior of South Africa, as his magistrate father moved from one dusty dorp to the next. With searing honesty he describes his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence. From an early age he found in storytelling t ...Show more
Before I Forget by Andre Brink
Category: unmapped
Chris Minnaar is an old author who has lost whatever gift he had for writing. On New Year's Eve, courtesy of a stalled car, he meets Rachel, a young sculptress, a good samaritan who becomes the great love of his life, a love greater for being unfulfilled.
Before I Forget by Andre Brink
Category: Fiction
Chris Minaar is a distinguished South African writer, an old writer, but a writer who has lost whatever gift he had for writing. 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 being unfulfilled. He ...Show more
Devil's Valley by Andre Brink
Category: Fiction
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 Virgil, he encounters a bewildering array of mysterious characters and events.
First Life Of Admastor, The by Andre Brink
Category: Australian History
Andre Brink's novella has its origins in an act of rescue: what, he wondered, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mountains of the Cape? Adamastor is the Titan whose body, legend has it, formed the rocks.
Islands by Dan Sleigh (tr from Afrikaans, Andre Brink)
Category: Fiction
For the indigenous peoples of the Dutch settlement of the Cape, it is the beginning of the end of a way of life; its seasons and rhythms, its harshness and abundance. Pieternella is the daughter of the first 'mixed' marriage of the new colony and it is she who becomes the pivot of all the action in this ...Show more
Philida by Andre Brink
Category: Fiction
The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of slaves. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. Francois has reneged on his promise to set her free and his father has ordered him to marry a white woman from a prominent family, selling P ...Show more