A Dry White Season by Andre Brink (Book Review Sample)

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Book review: A Dry White Season
The novel is characterized by its unflinching and memorable exposure of racial intolerance, high morality price, and human condition among others. On a personal view, the author has totally challenged apartheid`s political orthodox, conventions, themes and formal architecture as formerly portrayed by other Afrikaans authors. The story revolves around the main character, Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland), who is a white schoolteacher from Johannesburg during state-sanctioned apartheid and the gloomy periods of intolerance. The story introduces the reader as an adult coming-age-novel. The reader is set to a suspense and dilemma mode; to evaluate when one as a grown up realizes life is not what he or she thought it was. Am fully convinced that Ben, the star character, plays the role of a simple but political individual who believes...