Imaginings of Sand

by André Brink

Overview

THE BOOK: A narrative counterpoint between two women, two South Africas. Kristien Muller returns from London to her homeland to fulfil a promise. Her grandmother lies on her deathbed unleashing a turmult of myth, legend and brute fact. Confronted by the realities of a land hurtling towards change, Kristien discovers that the present holds its own moments of savagery. A searing panorama of South Africa's experience, reminiscent in its political&imaginative scope of Marquez's One Hundred Years Of Solitude.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781446466469
Publisher:	Random House
Publication date:	11/30/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	699 KB

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

"His first post-apartheid novel... A complex cocktail of myths, legends, magic, farce, politics and morals... Powerful and enchanting."

EBOOK COMMENTARY

"A highly successful fusion of fabrication and reinvention . . . Histories, half-truths, myths and fables weave themselves around an exile's narrative of return to a nation on the brink of political transformation. . . . A compelling story. Get a copy."-The Boston Sunday Globe
"One of [South Africa's] prominent fabulists . . . gives us a glimpse of what may be the future of literature in this nation as it emerges from the censorship and darkness of its oppressive past. . . . Follows in the tradition of Karen Blixen's Out of Africa."-San Francisco Chronicle
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