&?Brink writes feelingly of South Africa-the land, the black,
the white, the terrible beauty and tragedy that lies therein.&?
-Publishers Weekly&
&
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize?&
&
An Instant in the Wind is the passionate story of an escaped slave
and a white woman lost in the African wilderness, and the
unexpected love that flowers between them.&
&
&?Brink describes &?calamities and absurdities of the
apartheid system with a cold lucidity that in no way interferes
with high emotion and daring flights of the
imagination.&?&?&
-Mario Vargas Llosa, New York Times Book Review&
&
&?It is difficult to see how any South African novelist will be
able to surpass the honesty of this novel or the real courage-both
as artist and as [a] political man-which enabled Brink to write
it.&?&
-World Literature Today&
&
&?Andr?? Brink has gained a reputation in this country and in
his native South Africa as a novelist unafraid to tackle the
controversial subjects of mixed-race love affairs and marriages, of
the injustices of apartheid, or racism in all its myriad
forms.&?&
-Book World&
&
&?The subject is important and the novelistic achievement
impressive.&?&
-Library Journal&
&
&?Tales of upper class women and primitive men combating the
wilderness are nothing new. But I know of no other as honest, as
beautifully told or as sad as this one.&?&
-Sunday Plain Dealer&
&
&?An Instant in the Wind stands with the best of Alan
Paton.&?&
-Cleveland Plain Dealer&
&
Andr?? Brink is one of South Africa&'s most eminent novelists.
He is the author of seventeen works of fiction, has been twice
shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is anoutspoken recorder of
South Africa&'s turbulent history, from the days of apartheid
to the present.&
General
Imprint: |
Sourcebooks
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2008 |
First published: |
February 2008 |
Authors: |
Andre Brink
|
Dimensions: |
228 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
281 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4022-1109-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
1-4022-1109-0 |
Barcode: |
9781402211096 |
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