A Fork in the Road

The memoir of one of South Africa's best-loved novelists.

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Memoir from the highly acclaimed South African novelist. Features his encounters with Ariel Dorfman! Gunter Grass! Nadine Gordimer! Nelson Mandela and many others. Zusammenfassung This is Andre Brink's story of a life lived in tumultuous times. He describes with searing honesty his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence and storytelling was a means of reconciling the stark contrasts of his world.

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The memoir of one of South Africa's best-loved novelists.

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Memoir from the highly acclaimed South African novelist. Features his encounters with Ariel Dorfman, Gunter Grass, Nadine Gordimer, Nelson Mandela and many others.

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This is André Brink's story of a life lived in tumultuous times. He describes with searing honesty his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence and storytelling was a means of reconciling the stark contrasts of his world.