Staring Memory in the Face

af Michael Rice

"You don't need to worry about 'Staring Memory in the Face' being yet another addition to the breast-beating literature of white boys or girls growing up in South Africa. Your book has many differences from that genre. Not least, it's well written ... The winter rain in 1943 you interpreted from the atmosphere of war around you, and the terror you describe brings a unique element into the childhood saga we know in South Africa. It's one of the best passages in the book, the rain becoming, for th... (Læs mere)