André Brink

Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way - until his sense of justice is outraged by the death of a man he has known. His friend died at the hands of the police. In the beginning it appears a straightforward matter, an unfortunate error that can be explained and put right. But as Ben investigates further he finds that his curiosity becomes labelled rebellion - and for a rebel there is no way back.

A Dry White Season

The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of slaves. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. Francois has reneged on his promise to set her free and his father has ordered him to marry a white woman from a prominent family, selling Philida on to owners in the harsh country in the north. Unwilling to accept this fate, Philida tests the limits of her freedom by setting off on a journey. She travels across the great wilderness to the far north of Cape Town - determined to survive and be free. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012.

Philida

After years of abuse, with only a bleak future ahead of her, a young German woman joins other women being transported to German's colony in South-West Africa to attend the needs of male settlers, but when she is confronted by the harsh reality and brutality of life in Africa, she revolts, joining a ragtag army of women and native victims to take on the German Reich. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

The Other Side of Silence

Flip Lochner is a weary and disillusioned newspaper crime reporter. Curious to find out more about the origins of a casual acquaintance, he descends into Devil's Valley where, like Dante's Virgil, he encounters a bewildering array of mysterious characters and events that lead him to reevaluate the world in which he lives and which he thought he knew. Fusing invention and reality, magic realism and earthy humour, Lochner's adventures in the valley centre around the journey he undertakes to discover the truth about the elusive and erotic figure of Emma, one of Brink's most remarkable creations.

Devil's Valley

Spanning three generations and narrated in the voices of both the living and the dead, Brinks novel is a beautiful and haunting illustration of racisms plague on South Africa.

A Chain of Voices

Prix Médicis étranger, Une saison blanche et sèche est le quatrième roman d'André Brink. Interdit dès sa publication en Afrique du Sud, il est traduit dans une dizaine de pays. Ecrit dans la même langue somptueuse, riche de couleurs et d'images qu'Au plus noir de la nuit, c'est l'œuvre la plus significative, la plus engagée, la plus achevée d'un très grand romancier.

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Une saison blanche et sèche

A landmark book that blazed light on one of the business world's dirtiest secrets, The Bully at Work exposed the destructive, silent epidemic of workplace bullying that devastates the lives, careers, and families of millions. In this completely updated new edition based on an updated survey of workplace issues, the authors explore new grounds of bullying in the 21st century workplace. Gary and Ruth Namie, pioneers of the Campaign Against Workplace Bullying, teach the reader personal strategies to identify allies, build their confidence, and stand up to the tormentor - or decide when to walk away with their sanity and dignity intact. The Namies' expertise on workplace bullying has been featured in such media outlets as The Early Show, CBS Radio, The Howard Stern Show, CNN, PBS, NPR, USA Today, and theWashington Post. "This is the best book on what workplace bullies do and how to stop them in their tracks. The Namie's remarkably useful and concrete advice has helped millions of people, and The Bully at Work will spread their tried-and-true wisdom to millions more."-Robert I. Sutton, Stanford Professor and author of The No Asshole Rule "Sheds light on one of the business world's dirtiest secrets - corporate bullying." -Dayton Business Journal "Filled with remedies for an ailment that is ravaging workplaces..."-Harvey A. Hornstein, PhD

What You Can Do to Stop the Hurt and Reclaim Your Dignity on the Job

The Bully at Work

States of Emergency

In 1960s Paris, Paul van Heerden is the only South African the French Foreign Office will listen to. At the same time, Ambassador van Heerden is embroiled in an affair with Nicolette, the promiscuous mistress of the Embassy's Third Secretary. Each man tells his story, and each pays a price.

The Ambassador

Odvrácená strana ticha

Un'arida stagione bianca

Rob van der Veer

Operazangeres Nina Rousseau breekt haar carrière af nadat twee van haar minnaars op verdachte wijze om het leven zijn gekomen. Derek Hugo, een pianist, weet haar over te halen om naar het internationale podium terug te keren, maar moet eerst beloven dat hij haar niet zal proberen te verleiden. Samen bereiden ze een recital voor. Wanneer ze ’s avonds ergens eten, wordt het restaurant overvallen, een gebeurtenis waardoor alles tussen hen verandert. Nina wil afzien van haar comeback, maar Derek houdt voet bij stuk. Ze besluiten een weekend door te brengen in een oude, afgelegen boerderij, waar Nina misschien alsnog voor Dereks verlangens zal zwichten. Er volgt een bloedstollende ontknoping. Appassionata is een donker, broeierig verhaal over muziek, liefde en spoken, maar vooral over de gevaarlijke kanten van een fatale vrouw.

Appassionata

Kristien's grandmother is dying and she finds herself leaving London to fly back to her native South Africa. Her grandmother is determined to hand down her treasury of family history, telling of magic, treachery, heroism and farce - the panorama of a nation's experience.

Imaginings of Sand

Banned for many years in the author's native South Africa, Looking on Darkness tells the story of actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover. André Brink panders to no one's political, ideological or religious beliefs in a controversial novel which has achieved international significance and abundant critical acclaim. From three time winner of South Africa's most prestigious literary prize, the CNA Award.

Looking On Darkness

Ruben Oliver's life is coming adrift from its moorings. He has been obliged to take early retirement from his job as a librarian due to 'rationalisation' and the new political realities of South Africa. His wife has died. One of his sons has settled in Australia, the other is about to emigrate to Canada while trying to persuade Ruben that it is too dangerous to remain. The only constants are his old family home, haunted by the ghost of a young slave woman; and his housekeeper, Magrieta, with whom he has a shared history that goes back more than half his life. When Tessa Butler comes out of the rain one night in response to an advertisement for a lodger, Ruben is captivated by her. She restores passion to his life, but brings with her a turbulent past.

The Rights Of Desire

Winter in South Africa - a time of searing drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of the Angolan conflict cast across the scorched bush. Martin Mynhardt, a wealthy Afrikaner, plans a weekend at his old family farm. But his visit coincides with a time of crisis in his personal life. In a few days, the security of a lifetime is destroyed and, with only the uncertain values of his past to guide him, Mynhardt is left to face the wreckage of his future.

Rumours Of Rain

Dry White Season

It is 1825 and high in the mountains of South Africa a group of slavesstand accused of the murder of their owner, Nicolass van der Merwe, a wealthy Afrikaner farmer. Galant, the van der Merwe family's chief hand, is held leader of the murderous band. Raised with the two sonsof the house, it was not until adulthood and rivalry over Hester, orphaned daughter of a tenant farmer, that he realised their differentroles, their unequal futures and opposed stations in life. A CHAIN OFVOICES stands as a prophetic lesson - when hopes of freedom from slavery are dashed, and when promises of equal treatment are broken, an escalating spiral of bitterness, resentment, and finally, explosiveviolence is inevitable.

The First Life of Adamastor has it origins in an act of rescue: what, wondered André Brink, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mountains of the Cape? Adamastor, the Titan whose body, legend has it, formed the rocks of the Peninsula, first appears in European literature in the sixteenth century - much about the time of the first known contact between seagoing European explorers and the natives of Southern Africa. How, Brink asks, would that meeting have looked from the landward side? What role would the visitors take in the mythology of an utterly different culture, with its own deities, its own accumulated story? Brink, in this extraordinary, moving and potentially explosive creation has unearthed from the sun-carved land itself the missing meanings of a myth that has waited five centuries to be invented.

The First Life of Adamastor

Over André Brink wordt vaak gezegd dat de apartheid de aanleiding was voor zijn schrijverschap. In de jaren zestig streed hij samen met Breyten Breytenbach tegen de apartheid en zijn boeken werden door de overheid verboden of gecensureerd. Maar ook de taal, de ontdekking van de taal, bracht hem tot schrijven. Zijn hele jeugd leefde hij tussen de boeken. Bibliotheken waren zijn paleizen en hij droomde ervan schrijver te worden: het schrijven werd een manier om wereldse zaken te doorgronden. In Tweesprong vertelt Brink over het kleine, overwegend blanke plaatsje waar hij opgroeide en waar de dagelijkse spanning tussen zwart en blank een normaal deel van het leven was, over zijn heftige relatie met dichteres Ingrid Jonker, over de vormende jaren in Parijs, over zijn huwelijk en kinderen. Zijn leven speelt zich af tegen de achtergrond van racisme en apartheid. Wanneer hij in de jaren zestig in Parijs is, en treurt om de dood van Albert Camus, de schrijver die hij vereert, is er in Sharpville een bloedbad gaande. Als hij ervan hoort denkt hij: Ja, dit viel te verwachten. Dit moest gebeuren. Zijn schrijverschap zal daarna niet meer hetzelfde zijn. Tweesprong is een fascinerende terugblik op een leven in een gespleten land met een gewelddadige geschiedenis.

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