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Synopsis
Walter Hambile Kondile is "a simple man, a Xhosa and an African whose life is of no significance to the world". He is the typical "good native" of his generation, poorly educated, submissive and subservient, brought up to know his inferior place and believe that "it was God's design for the white man to rule over me". But this unquestioning obedience is called into rebellion when his beloved daughter, Sindiswa, a committed young struggle activist, goes missing in exile. Kondile's search leads him to Lesotho and grim discoveries of betrayal that shatter forever his own "complicity of silence" committing him to an irrevocable path of no return. I Speak to the Silent is an exciting first novel by a powerful storyteller, who tells his history as he sees it.
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Review
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2004by Joy Calderwood We meet Walter Hambile Kondile in prison, a man condemned to imprisonment for life for the murder of a national hero . What happened to Sindiswa after she fled the country? What Hambile learns changes him into a man of action - . Hambile Kondile's story is written with such authenticity of wandering thought patterns, of tone, that it feels like it must be someone's memoir. I picked I SPEAK TO THE SILENT out of a booth for international books because of the harmony of its language.
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- PublisherUniversity Of KwaZulu-Natal Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1869140389
- ISBN 13 9781869140380
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages187
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