Imaginings of sand - Brossura

Brink, Andre

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0749395877 ISBN 13: 9780749395872

Casa editrice: Random UK, 2000

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

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

"Wonderful... About discord and reconciliation: between new and old, black and white, dreams and reality" (The Times)

"Peter Carey, Garcia Marquez, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Andre Brink must be considered with that class of writer" (The Guardian)

Descrizione del libro:

A wonderful, extravagant book; a melting pot in which women’s stories, black and white, young and old, marvelous fantasy and harsh political fact meet to create South Africa’s answer to Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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• Editore: Random UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0749395877
• ISBN 13: 9780749395872
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368