<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, André Brink's classic novel, <em>A Dry White Season</em>, is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance, the human condition, and the heavy price of morality. </p><p>Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state-sanctioned apartheid. A simple, apolitical man, he believes in the essential fairness of the South African government and its policies--until the sudden arrest and subsequent "suicide" of a black janitor from Du Toit's school. Haunted by new questions and desperate to believe that the man's death was a tragic accident, Du Toit undertakes an investigation into the terrible affair--a quest for the truth that will have devastating consequences for the teacher and his family, as it draws him into a lethal morass of lies, corruption, and murder.</p>