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A Chain of Voices

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First UK edition (Faber & Faber)

A Chain of Voices is a 1982 novel by Afrikaans writer André Brink. The novel is a historical novel which recounts the roots of the apartheid system during the early part of the 19th century.[1] The novel focuses on a slave revolt center in the country north-east of Cape Town.[1] The novel uses a coalition of voices, representing the whole range of social groups in South Africa.[2]

Reception

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The New York Times reviewer Julian Moynahan called the novel the best novel he had read since Robert Stone's A Flag for Sunrise and described it as "massive and ambitious, and surpassing Brink's previous apartheid novel A Dry White Season.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Moynahan, Julian (13 June 1982). "Slaves Who Said No". New York Times Review of Books.
  2. ^ Taubman, Robert (20 May 1982). "Submission". London Review of Books. pp. 18–19. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 28 February 2016.

Further reading

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