I'm revisiting this book now in my mind nearly a whole year after I read it. I want to briefly reappraise it, as the novel only really began to reveal itself to me sometime after I read it, when I began reading deeply into Afrikaner culture.Without a re-read I'm not sure that I could completely a...
I think I read all of the novels Andre Brink wrote about South Africa and the tragedy of apartheid. They were all almost unbearably poignant. moving and powerful. An Instant in the Wind, A Chain of Voices, and others whose titles I have forgotten. I haven't forgotten the passion with which Brink ...
This is a well written mystery that unfolds page by page. It is enticing reading. I found it best to arrange my observations numerically.1) It is possible to live in an oppressive society and not come to terms with it. This is willful to differing degrees, depending on the information to which pe...
And still there is a restlessness in me, precisely because there is no turning back any longer. The day after tomorrow, well before the sun comes out, we must set out to reach Worcester in the district of Tulbagh in time for Wednesday. That, I learned in the Caab, is when the next slave auction w...