An edition of A Dry White Season (1979)

A dry white season

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An edition of A Dry White Season (1979)

A dry white season

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As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, André Brink's 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 policies -- until the sudden arrest and subsequent "suicide" of a black janitor from Du Toit's school. Haunted by new questions and desperate to believe that the man's death was a tragic accident, Du Toit undertakes an investigation into the terrible affair -- a 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.

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Publisher
W.H. Allen
Language
English
Pages
316

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Edition Availability
Cover of: A Dry White Season
A Dry White Season
September 19, 2006, Harper Perennial
in English
Cover of: Weisse Zeit der Dürre
Weisse Zeit der Dürre: Roman
1986, Goldmann
in German - Genehmigte Taschenbuchausg., 1. Aufl.
Cover of: A dry white season
A dry white season
1984, Penguin
in English
Cover of: Une saison blanche et sèche
Une saison blanche et sèche: roman
1980, Stock
in French
Cover of: A dry white season
A dry white season
1979, W.H. Allen
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
London

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ4.B8583 Dr 1980, PR9369.3.B7 Dr 1980, PT6592.12R5 D79, PR9369.3.B7; Dr 1980

The Physical Object

Pagination
316 p.
Number of pages
316

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22342350M
Internet Archive
drywhiteseason0000brin
ISBN 10
0491024886, 068803568X
LCCN
79091518
OCLC/WorldCat
5678813
Library Thing
27399
Goodreads
5999442
665687

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It all really began, as far as Ben was concerned, with the death of Gordon Ngubene.
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