Kurzbeschreibung

A highly charged literary masterpiece that shows one man coming to grips with the death of a friend and the radical injustice of the society around him.

Beschreibung

Ben Du Toit, a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg, has lived his life secure in the belief that the government of South Africa is fair and benevolent. When a black friend is arrested and then "commits suicide" in police custody, Du Toit wants desperately to believe that the death was somehow an accident. Instead his investigation draws him into a morass of lies, corruption, and officially condoned murder. Eventually Du Toits quest for the truth has wrenching consequences, but it also earns him a newfound commitment to justice in a radically unjust society. Powerful and provocative as when it was first published, A Dry White Season is a masterful achievement from one of South Africas bravest voices.

Klappentext

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.