Andre brink, one of South Africa's best-known novelists, insists that his new book is not autobiography; it is a memoir. "A Fork in the Road" is one (white) Afrikaner's view of black South Africans' struggle for liberation. But it is also an account of Mr Brink's own internal struggle as he breaks away from his seemingly placid, conventional, Afrikaner childhood, "where apartheid was not a hateful idea but something that defined the parameters of the 'normal'"; through his rebellious years of starry-eyed liberalism and faith in the brotherhood of man; on to the wild euphoria that gripped Nelson Mandela's would-be "rainbow nation" in the 1990s; before ending with the "disillusionment, resentment, and rage tinged with despair" over the "rottenness" he feels is at the heart of the present regime.
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