- Fiction, Truth commissions, Women lawyers, Torture victims
"In a small, dusty, South African town, three people, returning after many years away, are about to meet their past. Successful prosecutor Sarah Barcant leaves New York to help Ben, her mentor and inspiration, with one last case.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Gillian Slovo
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 346
- Publisher
- Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, W.W. Norton, Virago Press
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783596156689
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 2 have read it and 3 want to.
“SARAH GLANCED DOWN, watching as her black suede ankle boots clipped up the subway stairs.”
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Flashlight 202585% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
The Coming Storm 199982% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
Black rock white city 201581% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
Monkey grip 197781% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
A maze of death 197081% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
Bränt barn 195081% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
Mon traître 200881% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
Retour à Killybegs 201181% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
Five Minutes of Heaven 200986% alikeFilm · Both grave, earnest, classical in form.
Cracks 200982% alikeFilm · Both grave, earnest, classical in form.