Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #898014 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Synopsis
Danika believes she is able to cope with anything. Now, as she keeps a lonely vigil at her mother's hospital bed, helplessly watching her life slip away, Danika is once again confronted by the dark secrets of her childhood in Cape Town in the eighties. A state of emergency had been declared - young soldiers carrying guns roamed the streets of the Cape Flats. No-one bothered to explain anything to bewildered, seven-year-old Danika, and for once her older sister, Lili, had no answers. Besides, their family had an emergency of their own...All we have left unsaid is a poignant, deceptively simple debut novel by Maxine Case.

Customer Reviews

A deeply felt novel
Maxine Case, the author of this work deservedly is the winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book from Africa, and is the winner of several other literary awards as well.

This book is about love, family and loss. Although it is set in a politically turbulent place and time (South Africa in the 1980s) the book possesses a timeless quality, in which the setting informs the novel, but does not dictate its form or conclusion.

Readers, including book clubs, will find this to be a rewarding book.