A chain of voices
1st U.S. ed.
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Author
Publication
1982 - Morrow, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
131,250 words, Guess
Page Count
525 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3513658M
- ISBN-100688011314
- OCLC Control Number8337426
- OCLC Control Numberchainofvoices00brin
- Library of Congress Control Number82080315
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- Goodreads665683
- LibraryThing101438
Classifications
- DDC823
- LCCPR9369.3.B7 C5 1982
Description
On a farm near the Cape Colony in the early nineteenth century, a slave rebellion kills three and leaves eleven others condemned to death. The rebellion’s leader, Galant, was raised alongside the boys who would become his masters. His first victim, Nicholas van der Merwe, might have been his brother.As the many layers of Andre Brink’s novel unfold, it becomes clear that the violent uprising is as much a culmination of family tensions as it is an outcry against the oppression of slavery.Spanning three generations and narrated in the voices of both the living and the dead, A Chain of Voices is reminiscent of William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!; it is a beautiful and haunting illustration of racism’s plague on South Africa.
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