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Au début du XIXe siècle, Philida, esclave noire mère de quatre enfants qu’elle doit au fils de son maître blanc, se rebelle quand elle comprend que celui-ci ne va pas tenir sa promesse de l’affranchir. Un formidable personnage féminin dans une histoire inspirée par un...
Les Mémoires de l'un des plus grands écrivains sud-africain, l'un des porte-parole du mouvement contre l'apartheid. Lucidité, humour intelligence et talent se mêlent pour nous faire emprunter une voie choisie à travers l'histoire et le monde.
Deux histoires qui se répondent et s'entrecroisent pour dresser une étrange métaphore de l'Afrique du Sud, ce pays dont les sortilèges s'abattent sur ceux qui pensent leur appartenance identitaire assez forte pour les protéger.
Un peintre est un soir accueilli dans son atelier par une créature de rêve et deux charmants enfants métis qui l'appellent papa. Marié depuis toujours à une blanche, il constate pourtant très vite que cette femme noire le connaît parfaitement et qu'elle le considère de...
A l’aube de la vieillesse, un grand écrivain sud-africain revisite son passé pour ne pas oublier le visage et l’histoire de ses amours perdus, ces femmes qui chacune à leur manière symbolisent les grands bouleversements de ce pays brûlant de violences et d’engagements.
L’histoire d’un enfant noir aux pouvoirs surnaturels, aux croyances païennes, qui un jour rencontre Dieu. Nous sommes au XIX siècle, il devient missionnaire. Prêcheur fabuleux, il offre sa vie à l’Eglise qui ne voit en lui qu’un homme de couleur.
The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of slaves. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. Francois has reneged on his promise to set her free and his father has ordered him to marry a white woman...
`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...
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. André Brink panders to no one's political, ideological or religious beliefs in a controversial...
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. Galant, the van der Merwe family's chief hand, is held leader of the murderous band. Raised with the two...
Winter in South Africa - a time of searing drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of the Angolan conflict cast across the scorched bush.Martin Mynhardt, a wealthy Afrikaner, plans a weekend at his old family farm. But his visit coincides with a time of...
The First Life of Adamastor has it origins in an act of rescue: what, wondered André Brink, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mountains of the Cape? Adamastor, the Titan whose body, legend has it, formed the rocks of the Peninsula, first...
Helping to research her lover's film on the great plague, Andrea returns to Provence. However, her journey becomes more a trip of personal discovery than one of pure academic research as she begins to enjoy more and more of the idyllic lifestyle. Travelling with Mandla,...
Estienne Barbier, born in the Loire Valley in 1699, lays claim to service in the armies of the kings of France and Prussia, but he is an inveterate liar, and the truth is less glorious: irate husbands have made the Lowlands too hot to hold him, and he has deserted his...
Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way - until his sense of justice is outraged by the death of a man he has known. His friend died at the hands of the police. In the beginning it appears a straightforward matter, an unfortunate...
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...
The Blue Door is built around one of the oldest questions in storytelling: What if ...? What if I return home one day to find, behind a familiar door, an unfamiliar world? What if the people closest to me turn out to be strangers? What if strangers start claiming a...
In early 1749 a white woman and a black man are stranded in the wilderness of the South African interior. She is an educated woman, totally helpless in the wilds. He is a runaway slave. They know only each other. At first their relationship is guarded, poisoned by the...
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...
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...
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