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'A Chain of Voices' is a 1982 novel by Afrikaans writer Andr Brink. The novel is a historical novel which recounts the roots of the apartheid system during the early part of the 19th century. The novel focuses on a slave revolt center in the country north-east of Cape Town. The novel uses a coalition of voices, representing the whole range of social groups in South Africa.

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'The New York Times' reviewer Julian Moynahan called the novel the "best novel I've read since Robert Stone's 'A Flag for Sunrise"' describing it as a "massive and ambitious, and surpassing Brink's previous apartheid novel 'A Dry White Season'.

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Category:1982 novels

Category:Fiction set in the 1830s

Category:Afrikaans literature

Category:20th-century South African novels

Category:Historical novels

Category:Novels set in South Africa

Category:Novels by Andr Brink

Category:Faber and Faber books


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