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  • The Rights Of Desire
    Andr Brink
    Ruben Oliver’s life is coming adrift from its moorings. He has been obliged to take early retirement from his job as a librarian due to ’rationalisation’ and the new political realities of South Africa. His wife has died. One of his sons has settled in Australia the other is about to emigrate to Canada while trying to persuade Ruben that it is too dangerous to remain. The only...
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    23,57 €

  • Praying Mantis
    Andr 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 his region. Coming under the spell of a woman the soap-boiler Anna and the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London Missionary Society Cupido is then made the first Khoi or ’Hottentot’ mi...
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    23,70 €

  • The Other Side Of Silence
    Andr Brink
    As a small child in a wintry Bremen Hanna dreams about the other side of silence the place where the wind comes from and palm trees wave in the sun. Seeing her chance to escape from years of abuse in an orphanage and in service Hanna joins one of the shiploads of young women transported in the early years of the twentieth century to the colony of German South-West Africa to ...
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  • Devils Valley
    Andr 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 Virgil he encounters a bewildering array of mysterious characters and events that lead him to reevaluate the world in which he lives and which he thought he knew. Fusing invention and realit...
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    23,38 €

  • Imaginings Of Sand
    Andr Brink
    THE BOOK: A narrative counterpoint between two women two South Africas. Kristien Muller returns from London to her homeland to fulfil a promise. Her grandmother lies on her deathbed unleashing a turmult of myth legend and brute fact. Confronted by the realities of a land hurtling towards change Kristien discovers that the present holds its own moments of savagery. A searing ...
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  • An Act of Terror
    Andr Brink
    `A massive apartheid thriller centred on a plot to blow up none other than the State President outside the gates of Cape Town Castle. . . Brink at his robust and imaginative best’ - Adam Low Daily Telegraph.A profound novel set in South Africa that combines compelling action with an intellectual confrontation of the author’s poitically volatile home country. A brave masterpiec...
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    24,96 €

  • Looking On Darkness
    Andr Brink
    Banned for many years in the author’s native South Africa Looking on Darkness tells the story of actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover. Andr Brink panders to no one’s political ideological or religious beliefs in a controversial novel which has achieved international significance and abundant critical acclaim.From three time winner of So...
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    23,24 €