Andre Brink | Imaginings Of Sand
- Kristien, an expatriate Afrikaner living in London hears that her grandmother, the victim of a terrorist attack on her remote mansion, is dying, and returns to South Africa to be with her. As Kristien keeps vigil by the sickbed in the ruins of the mansion, Ouma bestows on her the family history--a legacy of stories filled with myth and reality, legend and brute fact, treachery, heroism, and farce.