The Ambassador by Andre Brink
Paris, the early sixties: Ambassador Paul van Heerden is the only South African to whose advice the French Foreign Office will listen; and yet, embroiled in an affair with the promiscuous, seductive Nicolette, his passion obscures even an event as significant as the Sharpville massacre. Unbeknown to him, Nicolette is also mistress to the Embassy's Third Secretary, Stephen Keyter. Almost inevitably, Van Heerden and Keyter are seduced by the potent sensuality of the city's night life - and into a fierce triangle of disinformation, deception and intrigue. By the time both men try to reconcile the conflict in their lives, events have spiralled far beyond their control; and falling foul of the system exacts from each a terrible price.
Andre Brink was born in South Africa in 1935. He is author of eleven novels: The Ambassador, Looking on Darkness, An Instant in the Wind, Rumours of Rain, A Dry White Season, A Chain of Voices, The Wall of the Plague, States of Emergency, An act of Terror, The First Life of Adamastor and On the Contrary .He has won the most important South African literary prize, the CNA Award, three times and his novels have twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1976 and 1978. In 1980 he received the Martin Luther King Prize, and in France the Prix Medicis Etranger. In 1982 he was made a Chevalier of Legion d'Honneur and in1987 was named Officer de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, promoted in 1993 to Commandeur. Andre Brink is Professor of English at the University of Cape Town. He has three sons and a daughter.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780749396374 |
| ISBN 10 | 0749396377 |
| Titel | The Ambassador |
| Autor | Andre Brink |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Vintage Publishing |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1995-07-17 |
| Seitenanzahl | 327 |
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