Le Mur de la peste

Synopsis of Le Mur de la peste

«Le Mur de la peste» is the novel by South African writer André Brink, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (541 pages, in French).

Andréa Malgas, a mixed-race South African, travels to Provence to scout locations for the film about the Marseille plague being prepared by her lover Paul, a white filmmaker exiled in Paris. Mandla, a black activist, confronts her with her past and with apartheid, in a reflection on commitment and the fight against injustice.

This paperback edition was published in October 1995; the work is known in English as The Wall of the Plague.

For readers with a command of French interested in South African narrative and stories about apartheid and exile.