- Published: 1 December 1994
- ISBN: 9780749397982
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $29.99
On the Contrary
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- Published: 1 December 1994
- ISBN: 9780749397982
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $29.99
An immensely generous novel, vivid and adroit in its use of history
The Times
Peter Carey, Garcia Marquez, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: André Brink must be considered with that class of writer
The Guardian
On the surface, On the Contrary is a picaresque historical novel... Underneath, of course, the novel is about today's South Africa and the dilemmas facing people challenging the status quo. Brink has written a novel which entertains first and only later assumes a political significance. To rake over the old embers with such skill and ingenuity represents a considerable acheivement
Sunday Telegraph
Infernally beautiful
New Statesman
Unfailingly honest
Sunday Times