Brink, Andre.

The Rights of Desire.

London, Secker & Warburg, 2000, 2nd impression, 311 pag., original boards with dustjacket (not price-clipped). = Fine copy. A captivating novel from a storyteller which is a meditation on love, on loneliness and fulfilment, on guilt and the loss of innocence. Andre Brink has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and has won the South African equivalent, the CNA Award, three times.

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Andre Brink

The Rights Of Desire

Vintage 2001 Paperback, 311pp. A meditation on love and aging, loneliness and fulfillment, guilt, innocence and loss. Ruben Oliver's life is coming adrift from its moorings. He's been forced to take early retirement from his job as a librarian and adjust to the new political realities of South Africa. His wife has died. His best friend, Johnny MacFarlane has been brutally murdered. One of his sons has moved to Australia, the other is emigrating to Canada and trying to persuade Ruben that it's too dangerous to stay. The only constants are his old family home in the suburbs of Cape Town, haunted by the ghost of a young slave woman - and his housekeeper Magrieta, with whom he's shared a long history. When beautiful Tessa Butler comes out of the rain one night in response to his ad for a boarder, Ruben is captivated. She pulls him into a world of passion, and her turbulent past. Foxing; spine creased. (ISBN: 9780099285731). Fair.

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