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A Dry White Season (Hardcover)

by Andre Philippus Brink (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 316 pages
  • Publisher: William Morrow & Co (Jan 1980)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 068803568X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0688035686
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,507,663 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A harrowing novel, 6 Aug 2004
By Philippe Horak (Zug, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Dry White Season (Paperback)
Ben Du Toit teaches history and geography in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the period of the height of the youth riots in the township of Soweto. At Ben's school, Gordon Ngubene, a native, is a cleaner and he occasionally does little chores for Ben. When Ben sees that Jonathan, Gordon's son, is showing signs of intelligence and diligence, he decides to partly finance his education. One day however, Jonathan takes part in a demonstration which ends up in a violent riot and is arrested by the police. A few weeks later, after a harrowing quest through countless offices, Ben and Gordon are informed that Jonathan died "of natural causes" while in detention.
Due to the mystery surrounding his son's death, Gordon gives up his job in order to devote himself entirely to the enquiries which have become an obsession with him. Both the Special Branch and the Security Police are annoyed about Gordon's insistence and soon enough Gordon is arrested. After numerous attempts to try to trace Gordon and speak to him, Ben and Gordon's wife Emily are told by the spokesman of the Security Police that Gordon apparently committed suicide by hanging himself with strips torn from his blanket.
But Ben Du Toit senses that the official explanations for both Jonathan's and Gordon's deaths are just a pretext for poorly disguised murders and so he decides to take matters in his own hands and starts investigating.
Mr Brink's novel is a harrowing account of a solitary man's fight against all the atrocities of the Apartheid. During this dark period in the history of South Africa, a white man had to be a real hero to fight for the right of the Afrikaners. The author beautifully captures the fact that Ben has to fight not only the resentment of the people of the other race, but also that of the people belonging to his own race - his family for a start. The descriptions of the townships of Johannesburg, particularly that of Soweto, are breathtaking in their accuracy and poignancy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, buy this book!, 29 Mar 2000
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Every so often you discover a writer who is so good you feel you have to read all his work. Brink is such a writer. His ability to disseminate the inherent prejudices and corruptions of South African politics is wondrous. I cannot rate this novel highly enough
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely buy this book!, 23 Jul 1999
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I could not put this book down for a moment. If you're interested in South Africa in the 80s, this is a must-read. Andre Brink is really a fantastic writer.
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