Andre Brink

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1975
  • Latest Book:
    February 2013
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Looking on Darkness

    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 belief...

  • A Dry White Season

    New York Times Notable Book: This story of life and death in apartheid-era South Africa is “a powerful novel that you will not easily put down or forget” (Los Angeles Times).Winner of a Martin Luther King Memorial PrizeAs startling and powerful a...

  • A Chain of Voices

    Spanning three generations and narrated in the voices of both the living and the dead, A Chain of Voices is reminiscent of William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!; it is a beautiful and haunting illustration of racism’s plague on South Africa.On a f...

  • Rumors of Rain

    Martin Mynhardt seems invincible. Violence surrounds him, yet he remains unscathed: a woman asks him the time, then leaps in front of a train; after a mine riot, he watches hoses sweep scattered body parts off the floor.Just before the shocking viole...

  • The Wall of the Plague

    Andrea, a Black woman from South Africa, living in France with her white lover, a filmmaker, discovers new meaning, vulnerability, and responsibilities as a Black and as a woman, after the intrusion of a militant South African Black man...

  • An Instant in the Wind

    Shortlisted for the 1976 Booker PrizeThe year is 1749, when the Boers ruled South Africa. And so it has come to his Baas’s final command to his Hottentot slave Adam, to flog his mother, because she refuses to prune the master’s vineyard in order ...

  • State of Emergency

    Three stories set against a series of documentary accounts of South African politics and current affairs since 1985. It is constructed as a patchwork of opinion, fiction and history which develops to an emotional climax by this prize-winning author....

  • An Act of Terror

  • Cape of Storms

    He is the chieftain leader of the Khoikhoi, a nomadic people derogatorily called “Hottentot”’ by European colonists. She is a white woman left behind by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama’s crew when they rounded Africa’s southern tip in 149...



  • On the Contrary

    The South Africa of 1739 provides the backdrop for the picaresque escapades of wandering adventurer Estienne Barbier as he searches for a lost treasure, seduces women, fosters rebellion, and tries to deal with the hypocrisy of the colonial leaders....

  • Imaginings of Sand

    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 ...

  • Devil's Valley

    When Flip Lochner, a seedy, tired journalist fleeing a failed marriage, sees a beautiful woman with four breasts in Devil's Valley, he thinks it's a mirage. But then a man called Lukas Death stands before him. So begins Lochner's search for "the trut...

  • The Rights of Desire

    Ruben Olivier leads an isolated existence in a Cape Town suburb. His wife has died, one of his sons has settled in Australia, and the other wants to emigrate to Canada. The only constants in Ruben's life are the old family home, the ghost of a sevent...

  • The Other Side of Silence

    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...

  • Before I Forget

    An unforgettable story of a man's reflection on the a spent loving and the last great love of his life.Chris Minaar is a distinguished South African writer who has lost his gift for the word. That is, until, he meets Rachel, a woman destined to becom...

  • Praying Mantis

    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 an...

  • Other Lives

    A white painter in Africa comes to his studio in the afternoon. On his doorstep, he sees a woman with curly hair and a dark complexion. He has never seen her before, but she embraces him. As he steps past her, two strange children rush to his feet ye...

  • The Blue Door

  • Philida

    "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 ...



  • First Life of Adamastor

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    The First Life of Adamastor has it origins in an act of rescue: what, wondered Andr Brink, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mountains of the Cape? Adamastor, the Titan whose body, legend has it, formed the rocks of t...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Andre Brink has published 20 books.

Andre Brink does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Philida, was published in February 2013.

The first book by Andre Brink, Looking on Darkness, was published in July 1975.

No. Andre Brink does not write books in series.
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