{"product_id":"the-love-song-of-andre-p-brink-leon-de-kock-2019","title":"The Love Song of André P Brink by Leon de Kock","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Love Song of André P Brink (Hardcover Biography in Dust Jacket)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe First Biography of André P Brink, Drawn from Fifty-Four Years of the Novelist's Private Journals\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBibliographic Specifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Love Song of André P Brink: A Biography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Leon de Kock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jonathan Ball Publishers, Johannesburg \u0026amp; Cape Town\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2019\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781868427925\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Publisher's dark grey-green cloth boards with a printed, illustrated dust jacket.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePhysical Format:\u003c\/strong\u003e Octavo (8vo) hardcover, a substantial volume. No maps or plates.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOfficial Condition Report\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Book:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very Good Plus (VG+)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExterior \/ Boards:\u003c\/strong\u003e The dark grey-green cloth boards are plain and unmarked on the front, with a clean spine. Corners and edges appear sharp, and the fore-edge and top edge look clean. The lower edges and corners are not fully visible.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterior:\u003c\/strong\u003e The title and copyright pages are clean, bright and unmarked. The page block shows slight tanning at the edges. No foxing, writing or markings are visible on the pages examined.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dust Jacket:\u003c\/strong\u003e Present. The jacket carries a black-and-white portrait photograph with red and white titling, and is clean and glossy with no visible tears. It is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSynopsis \u0026amp; Historical Value\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Jonathan Ball in 2019, The Love Song of André P Brink is the first biography of the South African novelist, whose work was published in more than thirty languages during his lifetime. Leon de Kock draws on Brink's personal journals, kept over some fifty-four years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book follows Brink, who wrote in both Afrikaans and English, from his early career to his standing as one of the most prominent literary voices to criticise the apartheid state. His Kennis van die Aand (1973) was the first Afrikaans novel to be banned, and 'N droë wit seisoen (A Dry White Season) brought him international attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA review in The Books Page described the biography as scholarly and revealing, and well worth reading. It is a useful companion for collectors of South African literature, Afrikaans letters and writing from the apartheid era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Profile: Leon de Kock\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeon de Kock is a critic, poet, translator and author at large. He was formerly a professor of literature at UNISA, the University of the Witwatersrand and Stellenbosch University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis translation of Brink's love letters to Ingrid Jonker, Flame in the Snow, won the SALA award for literary translation into English and the English Academy's Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation. 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