A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season When I first picked up this book, I didn't know what to expect. Having never read Andre Brink, nor any novel about South Africa, I wondered what the tone would be, whether it would be profound or just preachy. I was also ignorant as to the full extent of the atrocities occurring in the country at the time the book was written. By book's end, however, I found that not only …showed first 75 words of 1067 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1067 total…gives Brink distance from the story, allowing it to essentially tell itself. A Dry White Season is truly a great work, both in style and in substance. Since finishing it I have been recommending it to everyone I know. I cannot help but think that anyone who reads it will come away somewhat more enlightened. At any rate this is the only way true social change will ever come about: one person at a time