Helping to research her lover's film on the great plague, Andrea returns to Provence. However, her journey becomes more a trip of personal discovery than one of pure academic research as she begins to enjoy more and more of the idyllic lifestyle. Travelling with Mandla, a fellow South African and Black activist, helps Andrea put into perspective the more hedonistic elements of her new life. However, through the intensity of his own convictions Mandla forces his friend to re-assess her own beliefs, casting a shadow on the ...
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Helping to research her lover's film on the great plague, Andrea returns to Provence. However, her journey becomes more a trip of personal discovery than one of pure academic research as she begins to enjoy more and more of the idyllic lifestyle. Travelling with Mandla, a fellow South African and Black activist, helps Andrea put into perspective the more hedonistic elements of her new life. However, through the intensity of his own convictions Mandla forces his friend to re-assess her own beliefs, casting a shadow on the relationship. As the story unfolds in a landscape evoked with a breathtaking mastery, Andrea and Mandla confront the uneasy relationships which develop between themselves and their lovers. Their difficulties form an allegory for those faced by two disparate continents, as they undertake the process of reconciling Europe's past and Africa's present.
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Very Good. UK 1st edition, Near fine/Near Fine DJ in Mylar, cover art different from what Amazon shows (walled city), clean & bright, close to like new, dustjacket has tiniest nick at rear top corner, in Mylar, price intact, no markings, not a remainder, square corners, approx. 5 interior pages creased at top corner, an attractive copy.
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Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 0571132901. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery.; Upper tips worn white, light bruising at top spine.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. 1st edition/1st printing with full number line. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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F- in VG+ jacket. F-/VG+. 8vo. original black boards gilt (a few light marks) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, spine a little faded, trifling wear to extremities); pp. 526 (last blank). A near fine copy.
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London. 1984. Faber & Faber. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0571132901. 447 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Pentagram. Illustration by Polly Raynes. Signed by the Author. keywords: Literature South Africa Afrikaans. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Andrea, a coloured expatriate from the Cape, is on a reconnaissance trip to the hot hills of Provence for a film about the great Plague which swept Europe in the fourteenth century. She is doing research for her lover, Paul. But she is also going on a nostalgic trip into her own past (she has been here before, with someone else). She is taking with her a fellow South African, a black activist named Mandla, a man whose very existence threatens not only her convictions but the entire life-style she has made her own. So begins a contemporary story whose many-layered unfolding has all the subtlety and power AndrE Brink's readers have come to associate with his work. Andrea's drive through the South of France is a truly memorable evocation of a landscape. At a deeper level, her search for the evidence of a long-forgotten catastrophe becomes a quest for self-understanding. And there is Mandla, whose companionship slowly leads Andrea into a new realization of herself, and whose presence on the journey brings it finally to its menacing and unexpected conclusion. The Wall of the Plague treks into the country of the past, finding there the lies and crimes of history; it is also a powerful exploration, through the image of the plague, of a society whose well-being is poisoned by the divisions of apartheid. Once again, AndrE Brink has transformed a deeply felt political statement into a compelling and moving artistic achievement. inventory #9159.
