Imaginings of Sand - Hardcover

Brink, Andre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 015100224X ISBN 13: 9780151002245

Publisher: Harcourt, 1996

Synopsis

In this magical novel that re-imagines stories from nine generations of South African women, ”histories, half-truths, myths, and fables weave themselves around an exile’s return to a nation on the brink of political transformation” (Boston Sunday Globe).

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Review:

Andre Brink has had a long career as a South African novelist, one that has provided him a forum for voicing his opposition to apartheid. Imaginings of Sand depicts the country as it makes the transition to democracy, just as Kristien Muller returns from self-imposed exile to the bedside of her dying grandmother, Ouma Kristina. At age 103 matriarchal Ouma is a fountain of family history and white South African legend, and to her grandaughter she passes on tales--magically unreal at times--that link the oppression suffered by women and blacks. While immersed in these fables of memory and emotion, Kristien must also deal with the current reality: a hostile family and authorities discomfited by the impending transition of power.

From the Back Cover:

"His first post-apartheid novel--a complex cocktail of myths, legends, magic, farce, politics and morals-- powerful and enchanting." - Focus

"Wonderful--about discord and reconciliation: between new and old, black and white, dreams and reality." - The Times

"Peter Carey--Garcia Marquez--Alexander Solzhenitsyn: André Brink must be considered with that class of writer." - Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 015100224X
• ISBN 13: 9780151002245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368