A shattering of silence

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Title:

Author:

Karodia, Farida.

ISBN:

9780143026471

Personal Author:

Karodia, Farida.

Publication Information:

Johannesburg : Penguin Books (South Africa), 2010.

Physical Description:

xix, 283 p. ; 20 cm.

Series:

Penguin African writers

Penguin African writers.

General Note:

Originally published: Oxford : Heinemann, 1993.

Abstract:

"Faith's childhood is shattered when she witnesses a massacre in her village in rural Mozambique. She escapes, but loses everything - her parents, her home, her identity and her voice. A Shattering of Silence charts Faith's quest to find a place for herself in war-torn Mozambique, where she is caught between the white colonials and the local resistance."--Back cover.

Geographic Term:

Mozambique -- History -- Revolution, 1964-1975 -- Fiction.

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Eight-year-old Faith's life is shattered when she witnesses a massacre in her village in rural Mozambique. She escapes, but loses everything--her parents, her home, her identity and her voice. A Shattering of Silence charts Faith's quest to find a place for herself in war-torn Mozambique, where she is caught between the white colonials and the local resistance. Karodia's fast-moving novel undermines traditional views of the role of women and the nature of resistance. It is a spirited response to the brutalizing effects of war.