Andre Brink is the author of fifteen novels in English, including A Dry White Season, Imaginings of Sand, The Rights of Desire and, most recently, The Other Side of Silence. He has won South Africa's most important literary prize, the CNA Award, three times and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His novels have been translated into thirty languages. Andre Brink is Professor of English at the University of Cape Town.
Brave, rewarding and dignified * Time Out * A work of fidelity and imaginative freedom * Times Literary Supplement * Brink's lyrical but spare writing evokes the harshness of the veld and the dream world created by the Bushmen. A book that lingers in the mind long after you have reached the last page * Daily Mail * From the stones of his country's rich, tragic, tumultuous history, Brink has built a novel that should nourish his reputation for years to come -- Donald Morrison * Financial Times *