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'Peter Carey, Garcia Marquez, Solzhenitsyn: Andre Brink must be considered with that class of writer' Guardian
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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“The other side of Silence” follows the life of a small girl, as she experiences all the good and evil in her ever expanding world, whilst she constantly strives to reach her childhood dream – peace of mind, and freedom of spirit. This heart felt journey takes her beyond the realms of cruelty, where she is delivered into the hands of those who would destroy her sole, and corrupt her body. Does she have the strength to live her life without hatred and anger after the atrocities that have befallen her? Will she ever take revenge against those who sought to destroy her – and even if she does will this ever be enough to heal the wounds.
This book is a catastrophic masterpiece. Filled with gripping tales of the harrowing life that the heroine leads, it can’t help but move you to tears. I felt emotionally drained chapter after chapter.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This isn't really a review as I couldn't actually finish the book. I managed about 40 pages. I have read a number of Brink novels in the past, and loved them. I would go so far to say I admire him. But this book seemed utterly different from his usual approach and style. Most importantly it seemed consistently overly sentimental and a little bit indulgent. So much so that I found it really rubbed me up the wrong way and I had to put it down disappointed and actually quite irritated. Yes, it deals with important and shocking issues, but does that therefore automatically make it good? I think not, and am suspecting some others like this book because it deals with suffering, poverty etc., and therefore is seen as good. I'm only suspecting that of course...
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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The timeset is at WWI time, and Germany's early colonial history. Not only is the story devastatingly thrilling; I wonder on each page what will happen to Hanna (or rather why she ended up as she did) but the story is also a history lesson. How many of us know or care about what the Kaiser Reich did in Western Africa in the early 1900's? Note that this has a heavy bearing on the growth of Nazism, the view on "the brutes" of Africa was formed in the decades preceding this story. This was the time that Adolf directly and indirectly took inspiration from.
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