On the contrary

Informationen zum Autor Andre Brink (1935 - 2015) was one of South Africa's most prominent writers and is the author of several novels, including A Dry White Season, Imaginings of Sand, The Rights of Desire, The Other Side of Silence and Philida. He has won South Africa's most important literay prize, the CNA Award, three times and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His last novel, Philida, was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2012. Klappentext Estienne Barbier, born in the Loire Valley in 1699, lays claim to service in the armies of the kings of France and Prussia, but he is an inveterate liar, and the truth is less glorious: irate husbands have made the Lowlands too hot to hold him, and he has deserted his pregnant wife to stow away for the Cape of Good Hope. Zusammenfassung Estienne Barbier, born in the Loire Valley in 1699, lays claim to service in the armies of the kings of France and Prussia, but he is an inveterate liar, and the truth is less glorious: irate husbands have made the Lowlands too hot to hold him, and he has deserted his pregnant wife to stow away for the Cape of Good Hope.

Product details

• Authors: Andre Brink, André Brink
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.09.1994
• EAN: 9780749397982
• ISBN: 978-0-7493-9798-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; France, Republic of South Africa, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary