Bücher von 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.

When expatriate Afrikaner Kristien Müller hears of her grandmother's impending death, she ends her self-imposed exile in London and returns to the South Africa she thought she'd escaped. But irrevocable change is sweeping the land, and reality itself seems to be in flux as the country stages its first democratic elections. Kristien's Ouma Kristina herself is dying because of the upheavals: a terrorist attack on her isolated mansion has terminally injured her. As Kristien keeps vigil by her grandmother's sickbed, Ouma tells Kristien stories of nine generations of women in the family, stories in which myth and reality blur, in which legend and brute fact are confused, in which magic, treachery, farce, and heroism are the stuff of the day-to-day. Imaginings of Sand is the passionate tale of a nation discovering itself and of the women who pioneered that discovery.

Hanna vokser opp på et barnehjem i Bremen hvor utnyttelse og overgrep er en del av hverdagen. Til slutt velger hun å emigrere til Namibia, hvor tyske settlere trenger kvinner for å sikre slektens utvikling og få hjelp til gårdsarbeidet. Ankomsten til hovedstaden Windhoek blir en kollisjon med et brutalisert samfunn, som skal komme til å ødelegge henne totalt fysisk. Hanna tar imidlertid systematisk og gjennomtenkt hevn, før hun forsoner seg med sin skjebne. Romanen handler om lidelse, hevn, barmhjertighet og kjærlighet.