The Other Side of Silence

The Other Side of Silence

by Andre Brink (Author)

Synopsis

As a small child in wintry Bremen, Hanna dreams about escaping from years of abuse in the orphanage and in service. She joins a shipload of young women transported in the early years of the 20th century to the colony of South-West Africa to assuage the needs of the male settlers.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
Published: 05 Sep 2002

ISBN 10: 0436205920
ISBN 13: 9780436205927
Book Overview: A compelling new novel from one of South Africa's finest writers.
Prizes: Shortlisted for The Commonwealth Writers Prize 2003.

Media Reviews
Brink is one of the crucial writers of our time... A truly horrifying tale, but compassionately and compellingly told. -- Glasgow Herald
An astonishing performance...his most profound and most beautiful novel. -- Irish Times
Peter Carey, Garcia Marquez, Solzhenitsyn: Andre Brink must be considered with that class of writer. -- Guardian
Harsh, visionary and unsettling. -- Time Out

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Author Bio
Andre Brink was born in South Africa in 1935. He is the author of fourteen novels in English, including An Instant in the Wind, A Dry White Season, A Chain of Voices, An Act of Terror, On the Contrary, Imaginings of Sand, Devil's Valley and, most recently, The Rights of Desire. He has won South Africa's most important literary prize, the CNA Award, three times and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has been awarded the Prix Medicis Etranger in France and the Premio Mondello in Italy. His novels have been translated into thirty languages. Andre Brink is Professor of English at the University of Cape Town.