Salieri – André's favourite – and I are celebrating André's 90th birthday by re-reading my favourite of his novels and having coffee in his favourite mug.

#AndréBrink #29May1935

'Where does the South stop tugging at one like a tide, back this way, back to people, back to one's childhood?'

AN INSTANT IN THE WIND

#AndréBrink #29May1935

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'I know now: it is not the death of a man that is terrible. That is commonplace. What is terrible, is the death of everything you have believed in, everything you've hoped for, everything you thought you loved.'

AN INSTANT IN THE WIND

#AndréBrink #29May1935

'This no one can take away from us, not even ourselves.'

AN INSTANT IN THE WIND

#AndréBrink #29May1935

'It is not a question of imagination, but of faith.'

AN INSTANT IN THE WIND

#AndréBrink #29May1935

An Instant in the Wind

#AndréBrink #29May1935