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Rumours of rain : a novel

Just before the shocking violence that brings South African apartheid to an end, Martin decides to return to the family farm for a weekend. A highly successful businessman and Afrikaans Nationalist, he hopes to sell the property to the government in a deal both highly profitable and corrupt. The moment he steps onto the farm, his plans are derailed. The repercussions of a societys endemic violence catch up to him, and shake the relationships that frame his life.

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  • "Rumours of rain with his appearance in 1978 months placed by the apartheid government under embargo. For many it remains one of Andre Brink's greatest novels. In a country plagued by drought continues raining just a rumor - but when it comes the time, then it becomes a flood that all of apocalyptic violence overflow. This central image is reflected in all facets of Brink's presentation of South Africa on the edge of a precipice. In the center is Martin Mynhardt, rich African industrialist, what a weekend at his old family farm will spend to consider selling it. A seemingly simple decision for him almost unmanageable as being gathered his entire life in the narrowness of that one weekend. With a proposal for a network of cross-referencing the four days of the novel in terms of a four-fold loss, even his best friend (a leading African advocate fit condemned as terrorist), his father whose sense of history for Martin incomprehensible continue his son who became after the Angolan war "difficult", and his mistress who for an impossible choice set. In this dramatic process, marked by themes such as human responsibility, historical commitment, integrity and identity are "lit a whole panorama of the South African life and a broad spectrum of characters revived in examining the key question: "What is an African? " Finally remains only about Martin stripped of everything that was important to him and condemned by his inability to love - whether father or mother or country, wife, brother or son, friends or other women."
  • "Just before the shocking violence that brings South African apartheid to an end, Martin decides to return to the family farm for a weekend. A highly successful businessman and Afrikaans Nationalist, he hopes to sell the property to the government in a deal both highly profitable and corrupt. The moment he steps onto the farm, his plans are derailed. The repercussions of a societys endemic violence catch up to him, and shake the relationships that frame his life."@en
  • "Tijdens een weekeinde op de voorvaderlijke boerderij op het platteland raakt een Zuid-Afrikaanse zakenman in een crisis als verschillende lijnen uit zijn leven samenkomen."

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  • "Afrikaanse talen"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "History"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Romans"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Rumours of rain : a novel"
  • "Rumours of rain : a novel"@en
  • "Rumours of rain a novel"@en
  • "Rumours of rain a novel"
  • "Rumors of Rain a Novel of Corruption and Redemption"@en
  • "Rumours of Rain"@en
  • "Gerugte van reën : roman"@en
  • "Gerugte van reën : roman"
  • "Geruchten van regen"
  • "Gerugte van Reën"
  • "Rumours of rain"
  • "Rumours of rain"@en
  • "Gerugte van reen : roman"@af
  • "[Rumours of rain]"
  • "Rumors of rain"@en
  • "Rumors of rain"
  • "Gerugte van Reën roman"
  • "Gerugte van Reën : roman"

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