A Shattering of Silence (African Writers Series)

By Farida Karodia

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435905937
• ISBN13: 9780435905934
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Understanding Mozambique better

"A shattering of silence" tells the adventures of a young mozambiquan girl travelling through her shattered country and following the death of her family. The book is a spirited response to the brutal effects on the mozambiquan civil war, which lasted from 1975 to the early 90th.