Ebook {Epub PDF} Philida by André Brink

 · “Philida” is the latest offering from the South African author A­ndré Brink, whose anti-­apartheid novels — along with those of such contemporaries as Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. When Francois’s father orders him to marry a woman from a prominent Cape Town family, Francois reneges on his promise to give Philida her freedom, threatening instead to sell her to new owners in the harsh country up north. Here is the remarkable story – based on individuals connected to the author’s family – of a fiercely .  · Philida by André Brink – review. Alex Clark admires André Brink's Booker-longlisted family history of Cape Colony slave owners. Illustration: Clifford Harper/www.doorway.ru Illustration Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.

Philida - Ebook written by Andre Brink. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Philida. "Philida" is the latest offering from the South African author A­ndré Brink, whose anti-­apartheid novels — along with those of such contemporaries as Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee. André Brink based his novel on a true story involving a slave of his ancestor's brother. Philida is a slave in South Africa in the 's right before England emancipates slavery in her colonies. But approximately a year before she's free, Philida files a complaint against her master's son, Francois Brink.

On Saturday 17 November , after following the Elephant Trail that runs between the Village of Franschhoek, past the Farm Zandvliet to the small Town of Stellenbosch near Cape Town, the young Slave Woman Philida arrives at the Drostdy with its tall white Pillars, where she is directed to the Office of the Slave Protector, Mijnheer Lindenberg, to lodge a Complaint against her Owner Cornelis Brink and his Son Francois Gerhard Jacob Brink. “Philida” is the latest offering from the South African author A­ndré Brink, whose anti-­apartheid novels — along with those of such contemporaries as Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee. The Brinks in this novel were relatives of the author's. In his acknowledgements, André Brink writes that "the discovery that [Philida's] master Cornelis Brink was a brother of one of my own direct ancestors, and that he sold her at auction after his son Francois Gerhard Jacob Brink had made four children with her, triggered this novel" (p. ).