A Dry White Season

As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, André Brink's classic novel, A Dry White Season, is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance, the human condition, and the heavy price of morality.

Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state-sanctioned apartheid. A simple, apolitical man, he believes in the essential fairness of the South African government and its policies--until the sudden arrest and subsequent "suicide" of a black janitor from Du Toit's school. Haunted by new questions and desperate to believe that the man's death was a tragic accident, Du Toit undertakes an investigation into the terrible affair--a quest for the truth that will have devastating consequences for the teacher and his family, as it draws him into a lethal morass of lies, corruption, and murder.

Author: Andre Brink
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 09/19/2006
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.34w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780061138638

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 17
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 71290 / Dry White Season

About the Author
Brink, Andre: -

André Brink is one of South Africa's most distinguished writers. His books include An Instant in the Wind and Rumours of Rain, both of which were short-listed for the Man Booker Prize.