New York Times Notable Book: This story of life and death in apartheid-era South Africa is тАЬa powerful novel that you will not easily put down or forgetтАЭ (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, Andr├й BrinkтАЩs 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 policiesтАФuntil the sudden arrest and subsequent тАЬsuicideтАЭ of a black janitor from Du ToitтАЩs school. Haunted by new questions and desperate to believe that the manтАЩs death was a tragic accident, Du Toit undertakes an investigation into the terrible affairтАФa 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.
тАЬHis most impressive novel thus far . . . [a] compelling angle from which to view apartheid and its corrosive effect on all of South African society.тАЭ тАФThe New York Times
тАЬExcellent . . . [a] harrowing and surprising story.тАЭ тАФScotsman
тАЬAndre BrinkтАЩs writing is built on conviction . . . A Dry White Season describes the triumph of tyranny.тАЭ тАФThe Times
тАЬPowerful and provocative . . . exciting, well written, and a literary achievement of the first rank.тАЭ тАФHouston Chronicle
тАЬImpossible to recommend too highly.тАЭ тАФTime Out