Book description
There was probably only one person who could make Sarah Barcant,
successful prosecutor, leave New York and return home to Smitsrivier,
the small town in South Africa she left years before. Ben. Her lawyer
mentor and inspiration; the man who encouraged her to get out and know
the world now needs her back, to help him with one last case, part of
the Truth Commission. In the back of a van, handcuffed, Dirk Hendrickes
is being driven to the police station where once he was proud to call
himself deputy. Later, down the same hot,dry road, will come Alex
Mpondo, alternating between cursing Dirk and feeling sick at the idea of
facing him, his torturer. And in Smitsrivier: James Sizela, who has
passed years waiting for the moment when the man he is certain killed
his son, will be forced to tell where the body lies. The people who are
about to meet their pasts will not experience the real truth-telling in
the court room, at the public show. The real truth will be felt
offstage… Gillian Slovo (father Joe Slovo, mother Ruth First) was
educated in Britain where she has spent all her adult life. Since Nelson
Mandela's release she has made frequent visits to South Africa. She has
written seven books.
