Smashwords – Monochroom Reënboog – a book by Andre Fourie
Abrie het ‘n plekkie wat hy koester, ‘n stil plekkie waar hy min mense toelaat. Hy treur en lag daar tussen herinneringe deur wat nooit uitgewis sal word nie. Herinneringe aan vriendskap, liefde en omgee. Maar ook ander herinneringe.
Heel dikwels klou ons vas aan herinneringe uit “die goeie ou dae”. Maar dan is daar ook dié wat ons diep wegpak en huiwerig oopmaak. Of vir altyd probeer toehou. More
Baie mense mag wonder: “Wat is lewensgetrou?” Tereg ook. Met hierdie boek poog die skrywer om so “lewensgetrou moontlik” ‘n prentjie te skets van ‘n bepaalde omgewing tydens die 1960’s en 1970’s in Suid-Afrika – gesien uit die oogpunt van ‘n Afrikaanse seun. Dit is belangrik om daarop te let dat daar destyds, soos vandag, 'n veelvoud van omgewings was met verskillende belewenisse daarvan. Hierdie boek probeer om een so 'n omgewing uit te lig. Daar mag woordkeuses wees wat gaan seermaak en ontstel, beskrywings en woorde wat vandag waarskynlik polities nie korrek is nie. Die skrywer glo egter dat outentisiteit in die slag sou bly sonder genoemde woorde en beskrywings.
Stap saam met Abrie deur sy grootword jare, ontwaking van hormone, eerste liefde, en manword tydens die Bosoorlog. Kyk saam deur die oë van ‘n kind en, later, jong man na die konflikte, sportboikotte en al die lief en leed van ‘n vergange era.
Die termometer wat aan ‘n boomtak in die basis hang, het vroegoggend reeds by 31 grade celsius verby beweeg, op pad 51 toe, soos gister. Caprivi, 1976. Die groep jongmanne is gereed en wag ongeduldig dat die kapelaan klaar moet bid vir “ons bewaring in die aangesig van die vyand” en dat almal weer veilig basis toe sal terugkeer. Abrie se browns slaan reeds donker sweetvlekke uit en die son steek sy nek waar hy met geboë hoof staan, boshoed voor die bors.
Later sou hy wonder of dinge anders sou uitgewerk het as hulle daardie oggend dalk met groter erns saam met dominee Kasselman gebid het. Almal het nie teruggekeer nie.
Maar wag, hierdie is die verkeerde kant. Die storie begin heelwat vroeër...
* Ongelooflik. Jy het my baie jare teruggeneem. Jou skryfstyl is gemaklik en so beskrywend dat ek kon sweer ek was daar. Willie Brits – Uitenhage
* Nou leef daardie tye en die baie onverstaanbare dinge weer by my. Alice Hendriks – Oxford
* Ek wou net loer, maar moes nou alles deurlees, sal maar môre my werk klaar maak. Cobus Wasserman – Sandy, Engeland
* Baie, baie goed Oom. Oom beskryf ‘n ding so goed dat dit vir my voel asof ek self daar is! Melissa du Preez – Port Elizabeth
* Pragtig, André – raak en suiwer beskrywing van ons kleintyd. Nico Mulder – Londen
* Ek was geboei van die eerste paragraaf af en kon nie wag om die res te lees nie! Laat my verlang na my onskuldige kinderdae. Adri Slabbert – Pretoria
Tags: romanse afrikaanse avontuur suidafrika nostalgie afrikaanse storie apartheid en verhoudings bosoorlog grootwordjare
About Andre Fourie
André Fourie was born, bred and educated in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
In 2002, after the company he had worked for was liquidated, he and his wife decided to embark on a family adventure and moved to England with their three children. This venture has now extended to thirteen years and they have settled in the United Kingdom as British citizens with dual nationality.
After obtaining an Honours degree in Marketing and Customer Relationship Management (1988), he followed a career in the financial sector in South Africa. His career took him to different jobs where he was, among other things, able to exploit his writing skills as copywriter and writer of training manuals. His first e-book, Unemployment, you and God's rescue ladder, is a blend of his firsthand knowledge of being unemployed, his financial/marketing education and the knowledge/experience gained over more than thirty years (the last twenty in senior positions).
In the mid 1990’s he became highly inspired and seriously put finger to keyboard after winning a national competition for first time writers – resulting in the publication of his entry.
His second attempt, a motivational book, was published by one of the major publishing houses in South Africa (Van Schaik, now Tafelberg) in 1998.
He subsequently has seen many articles under his name being published in various magazines and other publications in South Africa. Most of the formerly mentioned publications, though, were in his mother tongue, Afrikaans.
His latest project in Afrikaans (Monochroom Reënboog) the story of a boy growing up during the 1960’s - the height of the Apartheid-years - in South Africa.
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