Synopses & Reviews
Eight-year-old Faiths life is shattered when she witnesses a massacre in her village in rural Mozambique. She escapes, but loses everythingher parents, her home, her identity and her voice.
A Shattering of Silence charts Faiths quest to find a place for herself in war-torn Mozambique, where she is caught between the white colonials and the local resistance. Karodias fast-moving novel undermines traditional views of the role of women and the nature of resistance. It is a spirited response to the brutalizing effects of war.