{"product_id":"an-instant-in-the-wind-book-andre-brink-9781402211096","title":"An Instant in the Wind","description":"\u0026amp;?Brink writes feelingly of South Africa-the land, the black, the white, the terrible beauty and tragedy that lies therein.\u0026amp;? -Publishers Weekly\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize?\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003eAn Instant in the Wind is the passionate story of an escaped slave and a white woman lost in the African wilderness, and the unexpected love that flowers between them.\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;?Brink describes \u0026amp;?calamities and absurdities of the apartheid system with a cold lucidity that in no way interferes with high emotion and daring flights of the imagination.\u0026amp;?\u0026amp;?\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e-Mario Vargas Llosa, New York Times Book Review\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;?It is difficult to see how any South African novelist will be able to surpass the honesty of this novel or the real courage-both as artist and as [a] political man-which enabled Brink to write it.\u0026amp;?\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e-World Literature Today\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;?Andr?? Brink has gained a reputation in this country and in his native South Africa as a novelist unafraid to tackle the controversial subjects of mixed-race love affairs and marriages, of the injustices of apartheid, or racism in all its myriad forms.\u0026amp;?\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e-Book World\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;?The subject is important and the novelistic achievement impressive.\u0026amp;?\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e-Library Journal\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;?Tales of upper class women and primitive men combating the wilderness are nothing new. But I know of no other as honest, as beautifully told or as sad as this one.\u0026amp;?\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e-Sunday Plain Dealer\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;?An Instant in the Wind stands with the best of Alan Paton.\u0026amp;?\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e-Cleveland Plain Dealer\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003eAndr?? Brink is one of South Africa\u0026amp;'s most eminent novelists. He is the author of seventeen works of fiction, has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is anoutspoken recorder of South Africa\u0026amp;'s turbulent history, from the days of apartheid to the present.\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49529763135761,"sku":"GOR002967885","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51700665549073,"sku":"CIN1402211090VG","price":6.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51757586055441,"sku":"CIN1402211090G","price":9.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1402211090.jpg?v=1750856967","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/an-instant-in-the-wind-book-andre-brink-9781402211096","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}