An Act of Terror
  • Published: 1 November 1993
  • ISBN: 9780749399313
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 848
  • RRP: $39.99

An Act of Terror

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'An Act of Terror belongs to that small group of novels embracing a country's ethos and history in one panoptic vision... Peter Carey... García Márquez... Alexander Solzhenitsyn, André Brink must be considered with that class of writer' - Guardian

`A massive apartheid thriller centred on a plot to blow up none other than the State President outside the gates of Cape Town Castle. . . Brink at his robust and imaginative best' - Adam Low, Daily Telegraph.

A profound novel set in South Africa that combines compelling action with an intellectual confrontation of the author's poitically volatile home country. A brave masterpiece from Booker Prize shortlisted, award-winning author André Brink.
  • Published: 1 November 1993
  • ISBN: 9780749399313
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 848
  • RRP: $39.99
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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.

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Also by André Brink

Philida
A Fork in the Road
The Blue Door
Praying Mantis
Before I Forget
The Other Side Of Silence
The Rights Of Desire
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Praise for An Act of Terror

A political thriller, set in South Africa, laced with all the angst and pain and lacerating emotion that comes from attempting to intellectualise, and hence come to terms with, living in that volatile, unnerving, but ultimately fascinating land

Peter Brown, Time Out

An Act of Terror is the work of a sane, civilised, intelligent man- a story about events that are in the process of becoming news stories. Brink... is a writer of inspired violence, and his shifts of viewpoint are thrilling and significant, and deepy honouring the profession of literature

Hugh Barnes, The Times

This is clearly André Brink's tour de force

Time Out
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