The Rights Of Desire (Paperback, New Ed), by Andre Brink sale

The Rights Of Desire (Paperback, New Ed), by Andre Brink saleRuben Olivier leads an isolated existence in a Cape Town suburb. His wife has died, one of his sons has settled in Australia, and the other wants to emigrate to Canada. The only constants in Ruben's life are the old family home, the ghost of a seventeenth century slave girl who haunts it, and Magrieta, the elderly housekeeper who comes in to look after him. When Ruben's neighbor and best friend is brutally murdered by marauding gangs, the subtle yet

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Interspersed with this are stories of people he encounters in the airport

obscene experimental poetry

But both men must eventually face the absurdities of their positions

and the blood-soaked fate of soldiers of fortune

and many other aspects of life drawing

thinking that keeping quiet is a sign of strength

Stories by Diane Awerbuck

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a king with the finest moustaches you could possibly imagine

Out of that colonial experience issued a modern language of pluralism and difference