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By André P Brink

’n Belangrike roman oor die slawetydperk.In 1825 vind die enigste slaweopstand in die ou Kaapse geskiedenis plaas, die sg “Bokkeveldse Opstand”, ontketen deur ’n droom van vryheid wat nie bewaarheid notice nie. As kinders het Nicolaas en Galant saam gespeel; nou is hulle baas en slaaf. Tussen hulle staan die vurige, wederstrewige Hester.Die roman is ’n “koor van stemme”, maar die hooffiguur is die slaaf Galant wat die menigte stemme bind. Ma-Roos sê: “So praat ons, so praat ons, ’n ry stemme in ’n ketting, almal saam en almal aside, almal anders en almal dieselfde, en die skakels magazine lieg maar die ketting is waar. En die naam van die ketting is Houd-den-Bek."In die stemme van die dertig verskillende vertellers, deur vier dele, waarin die elemente van aarde, wind, water en vuur opgeroep observe, groei ’n persoonlike opstand uit tot ’n universeel menslike stryd youngster onreg – op so ’n aangrypende wyse dat Artur Lundkvist van die Sweedse Akademie dit via die boek se verskyning bestempel het as “miskien die grootste voorstelling van slawerny wat ooit geskryf is”.

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