![]() ![]() ![]() The book follows Ben's dogged pursuit of the truth, and how the apparatus of the state frustrates it, ultimately murderously, and the way this affects Ben's friends and families. Gordon is arrested and also dies in custody, and the police claim that he hanged himself. The caretaker Gordon Ngubene is unable to accept the official explanation, and involves Ben in his investigations. He becomes involved when the first son of his school's caretaker, a boy who has worked for Ben's family, dies while being held by the security police. It is an impassioned and often brutal account of what happens when an ordinary man questions an authoritarian state, in this case the apartheid South Africa of the 70s.īen Du Toit is an ordinary Afrikaner school history teacher. This is probably Brink's most deservedly famous book, and I have been wanting to read since reading Rumours Of Rain last year. ![]()
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