A Dry White Season

✍ Scribed by Brink, Andre

• Book ID: 107585619
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 383 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780061138638

✦ Synopsis

As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, Andre 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&#8212a 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.