’n Oomblik in die wind | General Fiction

André P. Brink

A welcome reissue of this moving novel about love across the colourline in the 18th century. A young woman accompanies her husband, an explorer, into the inhospitable vastness of the Cape hinterland. When she finds herself on her own after various mishaps a runaway slave, Adam Mantoor, offers her his protection, and during the long and arduous journey back to the Cape a relationship develops between them.