Devil's Valley

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 372. Black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine; maroon endpapers. Glossary.

Signed by Author to title page.

A washed out and jaundiced crime reporter locates a lost, white, and fatally inbred tribe in a hidden valley in the mountains of South Africa's Western Cape.

André Brink was a founding member, together with Ingrid Jonker, Etienne Leroux and Breyten Breytenbach, of Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"), a 1960s literary movement which sought to use the Afrikaans language as a weapon against the apartheid system. He was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters and awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government.

"A disquieting novel from South Africa rich in myth, magic and horror." –The Baltimore Sun