A first-person plural dissection of a goose ends a proto-modernist interlude titled for these time periods that begins the second half of The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner. In a novel titled for one of these periods, the casual way a policeman with a scarred cheek tossed an orange haunts the protagonist as he drinks brandy in the cat-filled apartment of the journalist Melanie. Anoa prophesies “two thousand” of these periods in a novel by Ayi Kwei Armah. In a novel titled for one of these periods, the family of a “lanie (“lah-nee”) history teacher is scandalized by a photo of him hugging the widow of his school’s janitor. In that novel titled one of these periods, the Special Branch’s murder of Gordon Ngubene is investigated by the Afrikaner Ben du Toit. For 10 points, André Brink titled a novel for a “dry white” sort of what time period? ■END■
ANSWER: seasons [accept A Dry White Season; accept Two Thousand Seasons; accept “Times and Seasons”; prompt on times or droughts by asking “what sort of time period appears in the title?”]
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