New York Times Notable Book: This story of life and death in apartheid-era South Africa is βa powerful novel that you will not easily put down or forgetβ (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, AndrΓ© Brinkβs 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 policiesβuntil the sudden arrest and subsequent βsuicideβ of a black janitor from Du Toitβs school. Haunted by new questions and desperate to believe that the manβs death was a tragic accident, Du Toit undertakes an investigation into the terrible affairβa 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.
βHis most impressive novel thus far . . . [a] compelling angle from which to view apartheid and its corrosive effect on all of South African society.β βThe New York Times
βExcellent . . . [a] harrowing and surprising story.β βScotsman
βAndre Brinkβs writing is built on conviction . . . A Dry White Season describes the triumph of tyranny.β βThe Times
βPowerful and provocative . . . exciting, well written, and a literary achievement of the first rank.β βHouston Chronicle
βImpossible to recommend too highly.β βTime Out