An author from this country wrote Rumours of Rain and a novel in which Ben Du Toit searches for information about a janitor's missing son, A Dry White Season.
After a writer was banned in this country, a fellow poet wrote the lines "only the trees know the pain as they stand still erect… their branches dry like wire." The protagonist of a novel set in this country loses his glasses while trying to convince his mother to sell their ancestral farm. Another novel set in this country ends with its protagonist working with Bev Shaw to euthanize dogs. An author from this country wrote Rumours of Rain and a novel in which Ben Du Toit searches for information about a janitor's missing son, A Dry White Season. André Brink hails from this country, the setting of a book in which David Lurie loses his job as a professor for having sex with a student. For 10 points, name this country home to the author of Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee.
After a writer was banned in this country, a fellow poet wrote the lines "only the trees know the pain as they stand still erect… their branches dry like wire."
South Africa [or Republic of South Africa] &lt;Droge&gt;