Looking On Darkness
André Brink
  • Published: 1 July 1993
  • ISBN: 9780749399870
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99

Looking On Darkness

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'A brave and important novel, and in any terms a fine one - linguistically exciting, continually perceptive about society gone mad, [and] fiercely angry about cruelty' - Times Literary Supplement

Banned for many years in the author's native South Africa, Looking on Darkness tells the story of actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover. André Brink panders to no one's political, ideological or religious beliefs in a controversial novel which has achieved international significance and abundant critical acclaim.

From three time winner of South Africa's most prestigious literary prize, the CNA Award.
  • Published: 1 July 1993
  • ISBN: 9780749399870
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99
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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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Praise for Looking On Darkness

A novel of stature that explores our cancerous condition more persistently than any other novel has done before, and without the benefit of an anesthetic

Alan Paton

Peter Carey, García Márquez, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: André Brink must be considered with that class of writer

The Guardian

Strikingly effective

The Times

A brutal, harrowing, desperately sincere piece of writing

Sunday Times