A Chain of Voices

André Philippus Brink

Original title: A chain of voices

first published 1982 Morrow, 1982 525 pages

On a farm near the Cape Colony in the early nineteenth century, a slave rebellion kills three and leaves eleven others condemned to death. The rebellion’s leader, Galant, was raised alongside the boys who would become his masters. His first victim, Nicholas van der Merwe, might have been his brother.As the many layers of Andre Brink’s novel unfold, it becomes clear that the violent uprising is as much a culmination o...

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A Chain of Voices ebook · 2007 · Sourcebooks, Inc. · 9781402217210
A Chain of Voices paperback · 2007 · Sourcebooks Landmark · 512 pages · 9781402208652
A chain of voices edition · 1983 · Penguin Books · 525 pages
A Chain of Voices. hardcover · 1982 · Faber Book Services · 528 pages
A chain of voices edition · 1982 · Morrow · 525 pages

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