Rumours Of Rain

On the eve of the Soweto riots, narrator Martin Mynhardt, André Brink’s hard-nosed Afrikaner businessman, stubbornly clings to his view of the world.

"As complex and powerful as the African continent itself."  -  Books and Bookmen

Winter in South Africa: a time of searing drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of the Angolan conflict cast across the scorched bush. Martin Mynhardt, a wealthy Afrikaner, plans a weekend at his old family farm. But his visit coincides with a time of crisis in his personal life. In a few days, the security of a lifetime is destroyed and, with only the uncertain values of his past to guide him, Mynhardt is left to face the wreckage of his future.

"Peter Carey, García Márquez, Solzhenitsyn: André Brink must be considered with that class of writer."   -  The Guardian

André Brink was the author of several highly acclaimed novels, and is one of South Africa's most prominent writers. His novels include A Dry White Season, Imaginings of Sand, The Rights of Desire, The Other Side of Silence and Philida. He won South Africa’s most important literary prize, the CNA Award, three times and was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His last novel, Philida, was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2012.