'N OOMBLIK IN DIE WIND

312pp., paperback, Reprint, Cape Town, (1975) 2016

Historical novel set in South Africa in 1749. An escaped slave comes across a white woman left alone and lost in the African veld, and agrees to help her find her way home.

Published in English as An Instant in the Wind.

André Brink is the author of 27 novels. He won the CNA Award three times and was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His novels have been translated into thirty languages. He died in 2015.