by André Brink · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780436201196
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«The First Life of Adamastor» is the novel by André Brink, published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd in paperback (112 pages, in English).
The novel goes back to the eighteenth century to imagine the first contact of an African tribe with white settlers; after a confrontation, a white woman is captured. André Brink connects that episode with the legend of Adamastor and the memory of the Cape, in a reflection on the clash between cultures and the construction of South African identity.
«The First Life of Adamastor» was first published in English in March 1993; it is a work of literary fiction.
Readers interested in historical fiction set in the Cape and in the encounter between colonial cultures.
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.
