THE FIRST LIFE OF ADAMASTOR

137pp., paperback, Reprint, London, (1993) 2000

André Brink re-imagines the first encounter between Europeans and Africans when Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope. 

"Terrifically well-written ... André Brink is confidently at home with his myth. The details are fresh, convincing and bawdy." Observer

"A simple love story ... A joyful psalm sung through the collective unconscious that unites all people ... fun, fresh, and firmly recommended." The Times

André Brink's novels include A Dry White Season, Imaginings of Sand, The Rights of Desire, The Other Side of Silence and Philida. He won the CNA Award three times and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He died in 2015.