Southern Africa
South Africa
Post-colonial
Afrikaans
Fiction
Ben du Toit, an Afrikaner schoolteacher, investigates the death of his Black gardener's son in police custody and is drawn into the machinery of apartheid repression. Banned in South Africa.
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Brink was the Afrikaner conscience; this novel directly confronted what apartheid did and who was complicit
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editorial-summarynot primary textBen du Toit, an Afrikaner schoolteacher, investigates the death of his Black gardener's son in police custody and is drawn into the machinery of apartheid repression. Banned in South Africa. Brink was the Afrikaner conscience; this novel directly confronted what apartheid did and who was complicit
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