Vorwort
An extraordinary and devastating memoir of a childhood in Africa.
Autorentext
Carolyn Slaughter's first novel, The Story of the Weasel, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She followed it with nine further novels, including Dreams of the Kalahari and The Innocents. She now lives in America and works as a psychotherapist. She is at work on a novel set in India.
Klappentext
What happened to me affected all of us - my mother, my father, my sisters and me: we all fell apart under the horror of it, and we all tried to pretend that there was no horror.
Growing up in a remote British protectorate (now Botswana) in the heart of the Kalahari Desert, Carolyn Slaughter was inspired by the stark beauty of her childhood home. All too soon, this magnificent and isolated landscape would become a refuge for a six-year-old girl with nowhere to turn. Neither her mother, doomed by depression and guilt, nor her sister could shield her from the most terrible of violations. In the end she would learn not only how to survive but how to save her soul.
In prose unforgettable for its lyric beauty and subtle irony, prize-winning novelist Carolyn Slaughter tells the story of a family that destroyed itself from within, offering us powerful lessons about survival and about the triumph of love over hate.