by Andre Brink · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006540144
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«A Dry White Season» is the novel by André Brink, published by Flamingo in paperback (320 pages, in English).
The story follows Ben du Toit, a white teacher in Johannesburg who lives on the margins of politics during apartheid. When a black caretaker at his school is detained and dies in custody, Ben decides to find out what happened, and his investigation uncovers a web of lies and corruption that endangers his life and his family's.
The work was originally published as «'n Droë Wit Seisoen» in 1979; this English edition dates from 1984. It won the Prix Médicis étranger in 1980.
For readers of historical and political fiction interested in apartheid South Africa and contemporary narrative.
André Philippus Brink was a South African novelist, essayist and poet. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and taught English at the University of Cape Town.
