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Looking on Darkness (Paperback)

by Andre Brink (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (15 April 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0749399872
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749399870
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 13 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A beautifully executed modern tragic love story, 28 April 2001
By xchrissty@hotmail.com (Swansea, South Wales, UK) - See all my reviews
Brink takes you on a closely observed journey through South Africa & London through the eyes of a black South African man who falls in love with a white woman. The story is beautifully illustrated and you are taken to all manner of places - the quality of the writing makes you feel you have really seen, even smelt these places, they are so intimately and lovingly described. The politics of race are ever present and form the background to an eternal love triangle and the third party is not always another person, but a yearning for home. Lose yourself in this story, experience the depths of emotion the writer skillfully draws you through. I will definitely read this book again in a few years time I enjoyed it so much - that is the best compliment I can pay it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A unique and remarkable novel, 5 Oct 2008
Andre Brink wrote this novel in the 1970s as a reaction against the discriminatory policies followed in South Africa at the time. It tells the story of a young actor, a victim of those policies, persecuted and eventually condemmed for loving a white woman.
Brink has written many very fine novels and must rank as one of the most consistently courageous literary figures of his generation. In Looking on Darkness he is able to explore both his policital and moral objections to aparthied and to write about the literature and drama he studies in his academic work.
The natural beauty of South Africa and the history of its peoples are regular themes of Brink's writing as is the refuge his characters find in their passions for each other. Yet these are just some of the aspects of this novel that make it so memorable. Brink's prose conveys brilliantly the artificiality and theatricality of Jospeh's trial and the innocence of his childish wonder at the bright colours of the circus. He captures the social divisions of London and the energy of actors with precision and understanding.
There is so much about this book that makes it a remarkable work- rarely can Shakespeare's sonnets been deployed with such impact as they are at the end.
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