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| A Larger Silence by Yvonne Burgess Penguin Books 207 pages, 2000 ISBN 014025964X Reviewed by our South African Editor, Merilyn Tomkins adams.west@saol.com - Adams Bookshop, Durban, SA As a boy, sweeping up the hair in the salon of the Professor of Tonsorial Artistics, Rudyard Kipling "Rudy" Knoesen's dreams were all of greatness and escape. Never did he imagine that his twilight years would be spent sleeping in parks and eating from dustbins in alleyways. Rescued from certain death on the streets by a nun and placed him into care in the home for the aged, Rudy reflects with wry, sardonic humour on the paths he had chosen to follow. Looking at his companions cynically - "faces like pickled bums" - sometimes Rudy wonders whether the brotherhood might not have been a more attractive option. A heart-warming, poignant novel that gives the reader a startling insight into "the brotherhood of the road". Yvonne Burgess firmly establishes herself as a major force in South African fiction. She is the author of A Life to Live, The Strike and Say a Little Mantra for Me. |
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