A Dry White Season

Name: A Dry White Season
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: André Brink
ISBN: 9780060911881

André Brink • 1979

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined

apartheid South Africa justice complicity

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Our Take

A white South African teacher investigates the detention death of his Black gardener's son and discovers that knowing the truth is not the same as being able to do anything with it. Brink was banned for this novel. The bureaucracy of apartheid violence is rendered in detail that has not aged.

Appears In

► Apartheid Testimony — The Record That Cannot Be Revised ► Apartheid — The Architecture of Dehumanization ► Latin American Political Fiction — The State That Disappears People ► Moral Courage and Its Failure — When Watching Is the Crime

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