by André Brink · tapa dura · ISBN 9782702863084
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«Les droits du désir» is the novel by André Brink, published by Stock in hardcover (463 pages, in French).
Ruben Olivier, a widower isolated in Cape Town, lives with the elderly Magrieta and the ghost of a 17th-century slave. When young Tessa Butler arrives on a rainy night, she awakens his passion but drags him into a web of deceit and lies. A novel about desire, solitude, and hope in the face of the legacy of the past.
Work originally published as «Donkermaan / The Rights of Desire»; it won the Hertzog Prize in 2001.
For readers of contemporary fiction and African literature, particularly South African.
André Philippus Brink was a South African novelist, essayist and poet. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and taught English at the University of Cape Town.
