by Andre Brink · Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780436274626
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«The Rights of Desire» is the novel by André Brink published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd in hardback (300 pages, in English).
Ruben Oliver, a widower and retiree, watches his children emigrate and his best friend is murdered. In his Cape Town house, haunted by the ghost of a young slave girl, only his elderly housekeeper remains. Tenant Tessa Butler rekindles his passion, but brings a turbulent past and demons from outside.
First edition published in 2000; winner of the Hertzogprys prize in 2001.
For readers of contemporary fiction and African literature, with an interest in novels by a South African author about desire, old age, and political change.
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.
