André Philippus Brink

This is what it means to be a slave: that everything is decided for you from out there. You just got to listen and do as they tell you. You don't say no. You don't ask questions. You just do what they tell you. But far in the back of your head you think: One day there must come a time when you got to say for yourself: This and that I shall do, this and that I shall not. Philida is the mother of four children by Fran ois Brink, the son of her master. The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of the slaves. Philida decides to risk her whole life by setting off for distant Stellenbosch on foot to lodge a complaint against Fran ois, who has reneged on his promise to set her free. His father has ordered him to marry a white woman from a prominent Cape Town family, and Philida will be sold on to owners in the harsh country up north.Unwilling to accept the fate her owners have decided for her, Philida continues to test the limits of her freedom and her language u a journey that begins with the small but endlessly difficult act of learning to say No. Philida is an unforgettable story of one woman's determination to survive and be free.

A Novel

Philida

Elisabeth Larsson, a young Swedish woman stranded in the jungle of eighteenth-century Africa, discovers new passions and a distaste for society in the initially discomfitting company of Adam Mantoor, a runaway slave

An Instant in the Wind

Chris Minaar is an old author who has lost whatever gift he had for writing. On New Year's Eve, courtesy of a stalled car, he meets Rachel, a young sculptress, a good Samaritan who becomes the great love of his life, a love greater for being unfulfilled.

Before I Forget

From a world-class writer comes a remarkable new novel about love in all its forms. Erotic, searingly honest, elegiac, and profoundly moving, "Before I Forget" is the story of a life set against the history of a nation, and the history of a transforming love.

op reis deur Suid-Frankryk

Midi

Ranging in tone from dispassionate historical overview to bare-knuckles polemic, these essays chronicle South Africa's willful transformation from repressive police state to emerging democracy.

Writing and Politics in South Africa

Reinventing a Continent

Tells the story of black actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover. The narrator and central character is Joseph Malan, a black South African actor, jailed, tortured and awaiting his execution for the murder of the white woman whose lover he was. He recalls the ancestry passed on to him, half-history, half-fantasy, a chronicle of subjugation through the generations. Then there is his own wandering through what his revolutionary friend dismisses as the white man's culture. But to Malan the many parts he has played, including an episode with the Royal Shakespeare Company, are the only identities he knows. A sophisticate, an aesthete, a Europeanized intellectual, a dabbler in the philosophy of the East, Malan is truly a character in search of an author. His refusal to leave South Africa and his involvement with the young adventuress however insures the fate he seeks and embraces. All of this has more validity as thesis than as fiction. But more damaging, how much attention can finally be paid to a novel whose characters continually quote authorities who say what they mean so much better than they do?

Looking on Darkness

nog dopstories

Loopdoppies

'n omnibus van humor

Mal en ander stories

A young German woman joins other women being transported to Germany's colony in South-West Africa, but when she is confronted by the harsh reality of life in Africa, she joins a ragtag army of women and native victims to take on the German Reich.

The Other Side of Silence

His sense of justice outraged by the death of a Black friend, white South African schoolteacher Ben Du Toit searches for the truth and challenges the assumptions on which his racist society is founded

A Dry White Season

Wanneer in het begin van de 18e eeuw een Afrikaanse stam voor het eerst met blanken in aanraking komt, wordt tijdens een gevecht een blanke vrouw ontvoerd.

The First Life of Adamastor

Jan Vermeiren

A novella-length fable chronicles the troubled affair between an African chieftain and a white woman left behind by the first European explorers. 15,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

The First Life of Adamastor : a Story

Cape of Storms

'n inleiding tot die lees van verhalende tekste

Vertelkunde

A Chain of Voices

"A collection of 15 essays by high-profile literary figures and journalists (Andre Brink, Kevin Bloom et al) as well as average everyday Saffers"--P. 4 of cover.

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