From the internationally acclaimed author of A Dry White Season comes a riveting thriller about apartheid that encompasses all the racial and political strata of contemporary South Africa. Two lovers and fellow terrorists attempt to assassinate their country's president, but things go horribly wrong.
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From Publishers Weekly
This enormously ambitious work from the author of A Dry White Season bids to qualify as the Great South African Novel as it narrates the story of a young news photographer turned anti-apartheid terrorist.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A young Afrikaner is drawn into a conspiracy to assassinate the president of South Africa. The attempt fails, leaving black and white bystanders dead in its wake, and he flees consumed with grief but still convinced of the rightness of his actions. There are echoes here of Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter ( LJ 7/79) and Marge Piercy's Vida ( LJ 1/15/80), but Brink's story is wholly his own. The novel moves back and forth with ease among the varied voices that comprise Thomas's life--family, lovers, terrorists, blacks, pursuers--to expose the corrosive effects of a vicious and corrupt system on its supporters and opponents alike. The novel is not comfortable to read, for its burning indignation leaves no room for moral complacency. Yet Brink sympathizes with the plight of oppressor as well as oppressed; everyone pays in a system of absolute injustice. There will be few books this year as good as this, and none that moves the heart as much.
- David Keymer, SUNY Inst. of Technology, Utica
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- David Keymer, SUNY Inst. of Technology, Utica
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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One of the best big books I've read.,
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This review is from: An ACT OF TERROR (Hardcover)
There are few people who can capture all the complexity and paradox of South Africa in modern times as Brink can. This book may be big but it crystallizes a time in South African history that was very real, scary and complex.
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