A Dry White Season
A Cultural, Fiction, Historical book. How dare I presume to say: He is my friend, or even, more cautiously, I think I...
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...
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- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780061138638 / 61138630
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I had never been so close to death before. For a long time, as I lay there trying to clear my mind, I couldn't think coherently at all, conscious only of a terrible, blind bitterness. Why had they singled me out? Didn't they understand? Had everything I'd gone through on their behalf been utterly in vain? Did it really count for nothing? What had happened to logic, meaning and sense? But I feel much calmer now. It helps to discipline oneself like this, writing it down to see it set out on paper, to try and weigh it and find some significance in it. Prof... How dare I presume to say: He is my friend, or even, more cautiously, I think I know him? At the very most we are like two strangers meeting in the white wintry veld and sitting down together for a while to smoke a pipe before proceeding on their separate ways. No more.Alone. Alone to the very end. I every one of us. But to have been granted the grace of meeting and touching so fleetingly: is that not the most awesome and wonderful thing one can hope for in this world? Andr Brink, A Dry White Season
This novel, written in 1979, takes place in Johannesburg, South Africa, during a time of violence and unrest while the country is being torn about by apartheid. Jonathon is a young man taken by the police who dies in custody under suspicious circumstances. Jonathon's father, Gordon, attempts to investigate his son's death, and enlists... **Reread this for the first time in years (five at least), and it was just as good as the first time. There's some groaner 1970s sexual politics here and there, but that's really its only flaw, and it has tremendous and pertinent things to say about enforced mental conformity to totalitarian or oppressive governments that benefit some... Dans la moiteur des nuits orageuses de Pretoria, Ben Du Toit dcouvre un monde tout proche et pourtant si loin de sa vie d'Afrikaner. Peu peu, il ouvre des yeux incrdules sur un systme qu'il cautionne par ignorance et par lchet et qui entretient une communaut, un peuple, dans le dsespoir et la rsignation. La navet de Ben est telle qu'il...
