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The Shouting in the Dark

The Shouting in the Dark

by EllekeBoehmer (Author)

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    Paperback 2015

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Synopsis

Ella is locked in a battle for creative survival with her domineering father, and apartheid South Africa, the troubled country in which he passionately believes. Whilst seeking political refuge in Europe Ella makes an unexpected discovery that forces her to confront both her father's war ghosts and the shape of her own future. In the country of his birth, her father, Ella finds, never officially recognized her existence. Boehmer has written a raw, intense and involving story.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Published: 18 Jun 2015
ISBN 10: 191012429X
ISBN 13: 9781910124291

Media Reviews
'The story, as disturbing as it is enthralling, of a girl's struggle to emerge from under the dead weight of her father's oppression while at the same time searching for a secure footing in the moral chaos of South Africa of the apartheid era.' JM Coetzee 'Readable, tangible and haunting.' Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth 'A beautiful evocation of childhood. Like colours slowly blooming downstream.' Nadeem Aslam, author of Maps for Lost Lovers
Author Bio
Elleke Boehmer is the author of Screens against the Sky (short-listed David Hyam Prize, 1990), Bloodlines (shortlisted SANLAM prize), and Nile Baby (2008), and also the short-story collection Sharmilla and Other Portraits (2010). Her edition of Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys was a 2004 summer bestseller. Her acclaimed biography of Nelson Mandela (2008) has been translated into Arabic, Malaysian, Thai, Kurdish, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese. She has published several other books including Stories of Women (2005), the anthology Empire Writing (1998), and Indian Arrivals: Networks of British Empire (2015). She is a judge of the Man Booker International Prize 2015.