Looking On Darkness

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Engelska, 2012

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Banned for many years in the author's native South Africa, Looking on Darkness tells the story of actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover. André Brink panders to no one's political, ideological or religious beliefs in a controversial novel which has achieved international significance and abundant critical acclaim.From three time winner of South Africa's most prestigious literary prize, the CNA Award.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-01-31
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781448112777
Förlag:Vintage Publishing

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Andre Brink (1935 - 2015) was one of South Africa's most prominent writers and is the author of several novels, including A Dry White Season, Imaginings of Sand, The Rights of Desire, The Other Side of Silence and Philida. He has won South Africa's most important literay prize, the CNA Award, three times and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His last novel, Philida, was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2012.

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"A novel of stature that explores our cancerous condition more persistently than any other novel has done before, and without the benefit of an anesthetic" -- Alan Paton "Peter Carey, Garcia Marquez, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Andre Brink must be considered with that class of writer" The Guardian "Strikingly effective" The Times "A brutal, harrowing, desperately sincere piece of writing" Sunday Times