Overview
Region
Southern Africa
South Africa
Era
Post-colonial
Language
Afrikaans
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
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.
Literary Significance
Brink was the Afrikaner conscience; this novel directly confronted what apartheid did and who was complicit