A dry white season

ISBN: 0061138630
ISBN: 9780061138638
Physical Description: print 316 p. ; 20 cm.
Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.
Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2006.

Brink, André P. (André Philippus) 1935- (Author).

Summary: 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.