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A Dry White Season

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The novel has become a landmark in South African literature about the seventies period of unrest and death in detention. The main character is an ordinary man who tries to get at the truth behind the death of a black man. He is not motivated by political issues but by a sense of moral outrage. When he realises his life might be in danger, he entrusts all the documents of his investigation to an old friend.

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A Dry White Season, André Brink

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1984
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Title
A Dry White Season
Language
English
Publisher
Flamingo
Released
1984
Format
Paperback
ISBN10
0006540147
ISBN13
9780006540144
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The novel has become a landmark in South African literature about the seventies period of unrest and death in detention. The main character is an ordinary man who tries to get at the truth behind the death of a black man. He is not motivated by political issues but by a sense of moral outrage. When he realises his life might be in danger, he entrusts all the documents of his investigation to an old friend.