AN ACT OF TERROR (SIGNED)
by André Brink (29 May 1935 – 6 February 2015)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0671748580
- ISBN 13
- 9780671748586
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDCOVER. SIGNED. AN ACT OF TERROR by André Brink (1991). (May 29, 1935 - February 6, 2015). SIGNED to the Full Title page by Andre Brink, the author. Excellent Condition copy. This is a U. K. FIRST Edition, FIRST U. K. Printing copy as stated on the copyright page. Dust jacket is in Very Good condition with slight cover wear only. The book has no tears, marks, creases, remainder marks, library markings, or black lines on the edges. Not inscribed to anyone. Not price-clipped, not a Book Club Edition (BCE), or signed on a bookplate. True Collectible Quality. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED to the Full Title page. No inscription; full signature only. This book will be carefully wrapped and shipped with free delivery confirmation. André Brink was born in Vrede, in the Free State. He moved to Lydenburg, where he matriculated at Hoërskool Lydenburg in 1952 with seven distinctions, the second student from the then Transvaal to achieve this feat and studied Afrikaans literature in the Potchefstroom University of South Africa. His immense attachment to literature carried him to France from 1959 to 1961, where he got his degree from Sorbonne University in Paris in comparative literature. During his stay, he came across an undeniable fact that changed his mind forever: black students were treated on an equal social basis with other students. Back in South Africa, he became one of the most prominent young Afrikaans writers, along with the novelist Etienne Leroux and the poet Breyten Breytenbach, to challenge the apartheid policy of the National party through his writings. During a second sojourn in France between 1967 and 1968, he hardened his political position against Apartheid and began writing both in Afrikaans and English to enlarge his audience and outplay the censure he was facing in his native country at the time. Indeed, his novel Kennis van die aand (1973) was the first Afrikaans book to be banned by the South African government. André Brink translated Kennis van die aand into English and published it abroad as Looking on Darkness. This was his first self-translation. After that, André Brink wrote his works simultaneously in English and Afrikaans. In 1975, he obtained his PhD in Literature at Rhodes University. In 2008, in an echo of a scene from his novel A Chain of Voices, his family was beset by tragedy, when his nephew Adri Brink was murdered in front of his wife and children in their Gauteng home. Brink died on a flight from Amsterdam to South Africa from Belgium, where he had received an honorary doctorate from the Belgian Francophone Université Catholique de Louvain. An Act of Terror was published in the U.K. in 1991. The U. K. ISBN: 978-0436-2005-19. BS13932.
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- Bookseller
- Charm City Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BS13932
- Title
- AN ACT OF TERROR (SIGNED)
- Author
- André Brink (29 May 1935 – 6 February 2015)
- Format/Binding
- HARDCOVER w/ Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0671748580
- ISBN 13
- 9780671748586
- Publisher
- Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. (1991)
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- Jan 1, 1991
- Keywords
- Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED BOOKS;
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