Friday, December 5, 2008

A Dry White Season


A few words of explanation would seem to be necessary at the beginning of this book in order to define its specific intention and to distinguish it from other works dealing with the same material. When I first started reading this book, I didn't know what to expect. Having never read Andre Brink before, otherwise any work of fiction story about South Africa, I wondered what the tendency would be. I was also uninformed as to the full level of the violence taking place in the country at the time the book was written. By book's end, however, I found that not only is Brink a luminous writer, but that the issue of political system is about far more than just a racist system of government. Like a nasty swelling in the body of the country, its injustice, its suspicion, its oppression has developed to include and transmit a disease to every individual person in it, black and white.
A Dry White Season is truthfully an immense work, equally in style and in material. Since finishing read this book I would like to recommend it to everyone in the world who wants to know about the open-mindedness attitude of the South African government. I cannot facilitate but consider that anyone who reads it will come away somewhat more open-minded. You must read this book if you want to know the truth about the fairness of the South African government. At any tempo this is the only way true social change will ever come about: one person at a time. This book is a powerful novel that you will not easily put down or forget what you read. Also it gives you knowledge and courage to leave with those who corrupt or discriminate other in the society. A Dry White Season is an unwavering and extraordinary look at ethnic fanaticism, the human condition, and the heavy price of integrity or morality.