The other side of silence
By: André Brink.
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Description: As a small child in wintry Bremen, Hanna dreams about escaping from years of abuse in the orphanage and in service. She joins a shipload of young women transported in the early years of the 20th century to the colony of South-West Africa to assuage the needs of the male settlers.