- Published: 30 November 2011
- ISBN: 9781448113613
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 384
On the Contrary
Formats & editions
- Published: 30 November 2011
- ISBN: 9781448113613
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 384
An immensely generous novel, vivid and adroit in its use of history
The Times
Infernally beautiful
New Statesman
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
Peter Carey, Garcia Marquez, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: André Brink must be considered with that class of writer
The Guardian
Unfailingly honest
Sunday Times