A Fork in the Road
  • Published: 1 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099527039
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $34.99

A Fork in the Road

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The memoir of one of South Africa's best-loved novelists.

This is André Brink's story of a life lived in tumultuous times. He describes with searing honesty his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence and storytelling was a means of reconciling the stark contrasts of his world.

His time spent in Paris in the 1960s confirmed in him the desire to become a writer but his opposition to the apartheid establishment resulted in years of harassment by the South African secret police; it also led to extraordinary friendships with leaders of the ANC in exile.

A Fork in the Road is André Brink's love song to the country where he was born and where, despite recent tragedies, he still lives today.
  • Published: 1 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099527039
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

André Brink

Andre Brink (1935 - 2015) was one of South Africa's most prominent writers and is the author of several novels, including A Dry White Season, Imaginings of Sand, The Rights of Desire, The Other Side of Silence and Philida. He has won South Africa's most important literay prize, the CNA Award, three times and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His last novel, Philida, was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2012.

portrait photo of André Brink

Also by André Brink

Philida
The Blue Door
Praying Mantis
Before I Forget
The Other Side Of Silence
The Rights Of Desire
The Wall Of The Plague
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Praise for A Fork in the Road

A passionate and remarkably brave exhumation of loves, hates and friendships

Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph

A fascinating exploration of the white South African psyche

Andrew Van Der Vlies, Times Literary Supplement

It is almost impossible to read the last page of this impassioned, self-critical, open memoir and not be moved to tears

Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday

Elegiac, angry and earnest

Guardian

Those who have never before opened one of Brink's books and wish to find him at his considerable best should at once read the first sixty pages of his autobiography

Literary Review

Brink's a brave man, oh yes, and this is an extraordinary book because it combines, uniquely, angry forensic polemic with writing of the highest order

Irish Times

Romanticism, often in the teeth of appalling oppression and tragedy, is the spirit which runs through A Fork in the Road

Herald