André Brink Livres

Martin Mynhardt, c'est l'homme " qui a tout " : brillante situation, jolie femme, séduisante maîtresse, deux beaux enfants, sécurité... C'est l'Afrikaner type, l'homme blanc sûr de lui et des siens, totalement aveugle à la réalité qui l'entoure. Et pourtant, il suffira de trois jours à peine pour que l'univers de Martin bascule et s'effondre. Ceux que Martin aimait le plus, confondant tranquillement amour et possession, amour et domination, s'éloignent de lui dans les terribles remous de la réalité politique sud-africaine... André Brink a situé Rumeurs de pluie à la veille des émeutes de Soweto. A travers Martin, c'est une remarquable image de la société sud-africaine blanche qu'il nous donne, dans son équilibre si précaire. Derrière la beauté des images, par-delà la somptuosité du décor et de très belles scènes d'amour, il s'agit d'un réquisitoire implacable contre l'apartheid, comme les autres romans du grand écrivain André Brink : Au plus noir de la nuit, Un instant dans le vent, Une saison blanche et sèche (Prix Médicis étranger), Un turbulent silence.

Prix Médicis étranger, Une saison blanche et sèche est le quatrième roman d'André Brink. Interdit dès sa publication en Afrique du Sud, il est traduit dans une dizaine de pays. Ecrit dans la même langue somptueuse, riche de couleurs et d'images qu'Au plus noir de la nuit, c'est l'œuvre la plus significative, la plus engagée, la plus achevée d'un très grand romancier.

Helping to research her lover's film on the great plague, Andrea returns to Provence. Travelling with Mandia, a fellow South African and Black activist, helps Andrea put into perspective the more hedonistic elements of her new life. As the story unfolds in a landscape evoked with a breathtaking mastery, Andrea and Mandia confront the uneasy relationships which develop between themselves and their lovers. Their difficulties form an allegory for those faced by two disparate continents, as they undertake the process of reconciling Europe's past and Africa's present.

"A Land Apart is an excellent collection of short stories and poetry by different South African writers. It is divided into three different sections each devoted to the main groups of South Africa. This book gives a clear glimpse of life in South Africa during apartheid through the eyes of three different groups. It is a clear depiction of the times and struggles of all South Africans during their struggle. This book is excellent for anyone wanting an inside view of South Africa during apartheid."--Amazon.com viewed June 17, 2020

It is 1825 and high in the mountains of South Africa a group of slavesstand accused of the murder of their owner, Nicolass van der Merwe, a wealthy Afrikaner farmer.

Based on the lives of Elisabeth Larsson and Adam Mantoor

In this magical novel that re-imagines stories from nine generations of South African women, ”histories, half-truths, myths, and fables weave themselves around an exile’s return to a nation on the brink of political transformation” (Boston Sunday Globe).

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.

`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 brave masterpiece from Booker Prize shortlisted, award-winning author Andre Brink.

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 a tragic accident, Du Toit undertakes an investigation into the terrible affair—a quest for the truth that will have devastating consequences for the teacher and his family, as it draws him into a lethal morass of lies, corruption, and murder.