num_pages: 416
description: The novel has become a landmark in South African literature about the seventies period of unrest and death in detention. The main character is an ordinary man who tries to get at the truth behind the death of a black man. He is not motivated by political issues but by a sense of moral outrage. When he realises his life might be in danger, he entrusts all the documents of his investigation to an old friend.
language: French
title: Une saison blanche et sèche
titlecomplete: Une saison blanche et sèche
genres: Fiction, Literature, African Literature, Classics, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Africa, South Africa, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 4035
places: Johannesburg
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Prix Médicis Etranger
publisher: Livre de Poche