A Dry White Season (novel)

{{Short description|Book by André Brink}}

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{{infobox book |

| name = A Dry White Season

| title_orig = ’n Droë wit seisoen

| translator =

| image = ADryWhiteSeason.jpg

| caption = First edition English cover

| author = André Brink

| cover_artist =

| country = South Africa

| language = Afrikaans
English

| series =

| genre = Fiction

| published = August 1979 (Afr)
September 1979 (Eng)

| publisher = Taurus

| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)

| pages = 261 (Afr)
336 (Eng)

| isbn = 9780620040242

}}

A Dry White Season (Afrikaans: {{Lang|af|’n Droë wit seisoen}}) is a novel written by Afrikaner novelist André Brink and first published by Taurus in 1979. The title quotes a line from the struggle poem For Don M. - Banned by Mongane Wally Serote.{{Cite web | url=http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2015/02/09/a-giant-of-literature-mongane-wally-serote-pays-tribute-to-andre-brink/ | title=A Giant of Literature: Mongane Wally Serote Pays Tribute to Andre Brink }} The novel focuses on the death during detention of a man wrongly suspected of being a black activist.{{Cite news

| url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/07/andre-brink-dies-aged-79

| title = André Brink, anti-apartheid novelist and campaigner, dies aged 79

| last = Thorpe

| first = Vanessa

| date = 2015-02-07

| newspaper = The Guardian

| language = en-GB

| issn = 0261-3077

| access-date = 2016-02-27

}} The novel challenges apartheid, depicting the transformation of a ruling class Afrikaner's opposition to the governing white supremacist regime.{{Cite news

| url = http://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0310/031052.html

| title = Novel for foreigners who want to understand the Afrikaner; A Dry White Season, by Andre Brink. New York: William Morrow & Co. $10.95.

| last = Goodwin

| first = June

| newspaper = Christian Science Monitor

| issn = 0882-7729

| access-date = 2016-02-27

}} The novel was initially banned in South Africa, though Brink had managed to get 3,000 copies published through an underground press.

The novel was adapted into a 1989 film which starred Donald Sutherland, Zakes Mokae and Susan Sarandon. The film was subsequently banned in South Africa.Ebert, Roger. [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19890922/REVIEWS/909220302 "A Dry White Season]," Chicago Sun-Times (Sept. 22, 1989).