His sense of justice outraged by the death of a black friend, white South African schoolteacher Ben Du Toit searches for the truth and challenges the assumptions on which his racist society is founded. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.[...]

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.[...]

Ruben Oliver's life is coming adrift from its moorings, he has lost his job, become a widower, and his children have emigrated. When Tessa arrives in response to his advertisement for a lodger, she restores passion to his life, but brings with her a turbulent past.[...]

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. This book presents the history of a life set against the history of a nation, and the history of a transforming love.[...]

Tells the story of a life lived in tumultuous times. In this title, the author describes with searing honesty his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence and storytelling was a means of reconciling the stark contrasts of his world.[...]

"This is what it is to be a slave: that everything is decided for you from out there. You just got to listen and do as they tell you. You don't say no. You don't ask questions. You just do what they tell you. But far at the back of your head you think: Soon there must come a day when I can say for m[...]

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 to assassinate the President. The author also wrote "A Dry White Season" and has twice been a runner-up for the Booker Prize.[...]

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 lover. Andre Brink was twice nominated for the Booker Prize.[...]

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[...]

Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of the slaves. Philida decides to risk her whole life by lodging a complaint against Francois, who has reneged on his promise to set her free.[...]