A White and Dry Season is André Brink's fourth novel. Banned upon publication in South Africa, it was translated into a dozen languages. Written in the sumptuous style, rich in colors and images, of Au plus noir de la nuit, it is the most significant, the most committed, the most accomplished work of a very great novelist. The very type of the complete novel, constructed, starting from a fascinating but anecdotal plot, to end with fundamental problems: individual freedoms, the right to self-determination, incommunicability between races, between social classes, illusion of solitary combat.
A large book, in a generous and courageous handwriting, which can be read in one draft while panting.