A Dry White Season

<p> As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago André Brink's classic novel <em>A Dry White Season</em> is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance the human condition and the heavy price of morality. </p><p>Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state-sanctioned apartheid. A simple apolitical man he believes in the essential fairness of the South African government and its policies--until the sudden arrest and subsequent suicide of a black janitor from Du Toit's school. Haunted by new questions and desperate to believe that the man's death was a tragic accident Du Toit undertakes an investigation into the terrible affair--a quest for the truth that will have devastating consequences for the teacher and his family as it draws him into a lethal morass of lies corruption and murder.</p>