New York Times Notable Book: This story of life and death in apartheid-era South Africa is โa powerful novel that you will not easily put down or forgetโ (Los Angeles Times).
Winner of a Martin Luther King Memorial Prize
As startling and powerful as when it was first published more than forty years ago, Andrรฉ Brinkโs classic novel, A Dry White Season, is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance, the human condition, and the heavy price of morality.
Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state-sanctioned apartheid. A simple, apolitical man, he believes in the essential fairness of the South African government and its policiesโuntil the sudden arrest and subsequent โsuicideโ of a black janitor from Du Toitโs school. Haunted by new questions and desperate to believe that the manโs death was a tragic accident, Du Toit undertakes an investigation into the terrible affairโa quest for the truth that will have devastating consequences for the teacher and his family, as it draws him into a lethal morass of lies, corruption, and murder.
โHis most impressive novel thus far . . . [a] compelling angle from which to view apartheid and its corrosive effect on all of South African society.โ โThe New York Times
โExcellent . . . [a] harrowing and surprising story.โ โScotsman
โAndre Brinkโs writing is built on conviction . . . A Dry White Season describes the triumph of tyranny.โ โThe Times
โPowerful and provocative . . . exciting, well written, and a literary achievement of the first rank.โ โHouston Chronicle
โImpossible to recommend too highly.โ โTime Out