Looking on Darkness

Paperback (15 Apr 1993)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Vintage

Vintage

Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9780749399870
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 399
Weight: 277g
Height: 198mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 25mm