Лучшие книги Андре Бринка

Андре Бринк — один из нескольких южноафриканских писателей, пользующихся мировой известностью. Роман «Мгновенье на ветру» — среди его лучших. Сюжет его несложен: белая женщина и африканец волею обстоятельств вынуждены проделать длительное, чрезвычайно трудное путешествие по Африке теперь уже далёкого прошлого. Постепенно между ними зарождается любовь, которую ждёт трагический конец. Их отношения, чисто личные, хотя и с общественной подоплёкой, обрисованы с большой психологической глубиной.

Андре Бринк — один из нескольких южноафриканских писателей, пользующихся мировой известностью. В книгу вошли два романа "Слухи о дожде" и "Сухой белый сезон". Роман «Слухи о дожде» (1978) рассказывает о судьбе процветающего бизнесмена. Мейнхардт считает себя человеком честным, однако не отдает себе отчета в том, что в условиях расистского режима и его опустошающего воздействия на души людей он постоянно идет на сделки с собственной совестью, предает друзей, родных, близких. Роман «Сухой белый сезон» (1979), немедленно по выходе запрещенный цензурой ЮАР, рисует образ бурского интеллигента, школьного учителя Бена Дютуа, рискнувшего…

В романе известный южноафриканский писатель обратился к истории своей страны в один из переломных моментов ее развития. Бринк описывает восстание рабов на одной из бурских ферм в период, непосредственно предшествующий отмене в 1834 году рабства в принадлежавшей англичанам Капской колонии. Автор не только прослеживает истоки современных порядков в Южной Африке, но и ставит серьезные нравственные проблемы, злободневные и для сегодняшнего дня его родины.

Роман «Сухой белый сезон» (1979), немедленно по выходе запрещенный цензурой ЮАР, рисует образ бурского интеллигента, школьного учителя Бена Дютуа, рискнувшего бросить вызов полицейскому государству. Там, где Мейнхардт совершает предательство, Бен, рискуя жизнью, защищает свое человеческое достоинство и права африканского населения страны.

A man investigating the death of a friend discovers the dangers of curiosity...
Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way - until his sense of justice is outraged by the death of a man he has known. His friend died at the hands of the police. In the beginning it appears a straightforward matter, an unfortunate error that can be explained and put right. But as Ben investigates further he finds that his curiosity becomes labelled rebellion - and for a rebel there is no way back.

This is what it is to be a slave: that everything is decided for you from out there. You just got to listen and do as they tell you. You don’t say no. You don’t ask questions. You just do what they tell you. But far at the back of your head you think: Soon there must come a day when I can say for myself: This and that I shall do, this and that I shall not.

In Philida, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, André Brink—“one of South Africa's greatest novelists” (The Telegraph)—gives us his most powerful novel yet; the truly unforgettable story of a female slave, and her fierce determination to survive and to be free.

It is 1832 in South Africa, the year before slavery is abolished and the slaves are emancipated. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. When Francois’s father orders him to marry a woman from a prominent Cape Town family, Francois reneges on his promise to give Philida her freedom, threatening instead to sell her to new owners in the harsh country up north.

Here is the remarkable story—based on individuals connected to the author’s family—of a fiercely independent woman who will settle for nothing and for no one. Unwilling to accept the future that lies ahead of her, Philida continues to test the limits and lodges a complaint against the Brink family. Then she sets off on a journey—from the southernmost reaches of the Cape, across a great wilderness, to the far north of the country—in order to reclaim her soul.

A magical novel from a world class writer about a remarkable historical figure.

In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of the soap-boiler Anna, and under the influence of the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London Missionary Society, Cupido is made the first Khoi or "Hottentot" missionary ordained at the Cape of Good Hope.

Received into the fold of the Church, Cupido passionately turns against all his early beliefs. After being drawn into the fierce struggle between the missionaries and the Dutch colonists, he rises to some prominence and is appointed as missionary in a remote and arid region in the North-western Cape. But this also marks the beginning of his decline, as the Society abandons him to his fate. One by one, the members of his congregation disappear into the desert, so that in the end, abandoned even by his wife and children, he is left to preach to the stones and thorn trees and tortoises, returning to the dream-world of his people.

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.

With years of abuse behind her and a bleak future ahead, a young German woman dreams of her country's colony in South-West Africa. When she learns of the women being transported to the colony to attend to the needs of male settlers, Hanna X takes the leap.
In Africa she is confronted with the harsh realities of colonial life. For resisting the advances of a German officer, she is banished to Frauenstein, a phantasmagoric outpost that is at once a "prison, nunnery, brothel, and shithouse." When the drunken excesses of visiting soldiers threaten the young girl who has become her only companion, Hanna revolts.
Mounting a ragtag army of women and native victims of brutality, she sets out on an epic journey to take on the German Reich. Combining the history of colonialism with the myths of Africa, this is an exquisitely written tale of suffering, violence, revenge, and, simply, love.

When expatriate Afrikaner Kristien Müller hears of her grandmother's impending death, she ends her self-imposed exile in London and returns to the South Africa she thought she'd escaped. But irrevocable change is sweeping the land, and reality itself seems to be in flux as the country stages its first democratic elections. Kristien's Ouma Kristina herself is dying because of the upheavals: a terrorist attack on her isolated mansion has terminally injured her. As Kristien keeps vigil by her grandmother's sickbed, Ouma tells Kristien stories of nine generations of women in the family, stories in which myth and reality blur, in which legend and brute fact are confused, in which magic, treachery, farce, and heroism are the stuff of the day-to-day. Imaginings of Sand is the passionate tale of a nation discovering itself and of the women who pioneered that discovery.

In this magical novel that re-imagines stories from nine generations of South African women, ”histories, half-truths, myths, and fables weave themselves around an exile’s return to a nation on the brink of political transformation”

Winter in South Africa - a time of searing drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of the Angolan conflict cast across the scorched bush.

Martin Mynhardt, a wealthy Afrikaner, plans a weekend at his old family farm. But his visit coincides with a time of crisis in his personal life. In a few days, the security of a lifetime is destroyed and, with only the uncertain values of his past to guide him, Mynhardt is left to face the wreckage of his future.

Детектив Алан уже давно не верит в обещанный лучший мир: рассыпаются дома, жителей поражает неизлечимая болезнь, безработные наводняют улицы. На глазах героя умирают бедные и преумножают свое состояние богатые. Все летит к чертям с того момента, как террористы убили семью мэра и тот обезумел от горя. Если бы Алан только знал, чем обернется расследование очередного убийства… Ему нужно еще немного времени, чтобы больше никогда не видеть позабывший про верность мир, где каждый верил в Рай.
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