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 The Other Side of Silence - Andre Brink
 The Other Side of Silence - Andre Brink ... silence, the place where the wind comes from and palm trees wave in the sun. Seeing her chance to escape from years of abuse in an orphanage and in service, Hanna joins one of the shiploads of young women transported in the early years of the twentieth century to the colony of German South-West Africa to assuage the needs of the male settlers. Following atrocious punishment for daring to resist the advances of an army officer, she arrives in a phantasmagoric refuge in the African desert - 'prison, nunnery, brothel, shithouse, Frauenstein'. When the drunken excesses of a visiting army detachment threaten her only companion, Hanna revolts. Mounting a ragtag army of female and natives, she sets out on an epic march through the desert to take on the might of the German Reich. This apocalyptic journey through the darker regions of the soul will also reveal to her the hidden meanings of suffering, revenge, companionship, love and compassion.Newest Review: ... the years ahead when nothing else can sustain her. From physical and mental abuse both in the orphanage and later on in ... more ... service she becomes resigned to her bitter life with only the seashell given so lightly by an unknown child as her sole possession.
In the early years of 1900, the German authorities started to send young girls and women of childbearing age to the German colony of South-West Africa where they expected to find work and possible husbands from the male settlers starved of female company. Hanna sees this as a chance to travel and to find the place of her dreams but all too soon she discovers the dream is yet another nightmar...more |
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The Other Side of Silence - Andre Brink: In Search of Hanna X. (1616 words)
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I’ve never been a person who gets involved in political issues, preferring to “wait and see” how politicians work out. One thing that has always interested me however is a certain political issue that I’m either in support of or totally against, so how I have missed novels by Andre Brink is a mystery to me. As a teenager in the 1960’s and a woman in the 1970’s who supported the anti-apartheid movement I never heard any mention of Brink in any capacity, so discovering his latest book has opened up a whole new world to me. Andre Brink was born in 1935 in Vrede, South Africa and educated up to the standard of professor, but he is also known as a novelist, playwright, ... Read the complete review
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