Literary Review
"Although 'Every Secret Thing' is so intensely personal, it incidentally illuminates the final phase of the Struggle more clearly than many books written with that intent. If it doesn't become one of 1997's best-sellers, we can only deduce the reading public has lost its marbles." - Dervla Murphy FebruaryKirkus
"Weaving the personal and political tightly together, novelist Slovo creates an incisive and unflinching portrait of her prominent South African family....She has covered some of this ground before in fiction, but what she discovered and recounts here has a strangeness and piquancy quite beyond her fictive powers. Not only does she track down and confront one of the men responsible for her mother's death..., she also movingly details the pain and the pride she felt growing up in such strange, terrible times." 03/01/1997 Washington Post Book World
"A tough, tight and somber book, one that asks most, if not quite all, of the anguishing questions." - Samuel G. Freedman 06/08/1997 Observer (London)
"A luminous achievement....An enthralling story about the cruelties of compassion, the anguish of loss, and the courage to pursue the truth that brings its own peace." publisher's advertisement
"An extraordinary expression of the very nature of loving." - Nadine Gordimer |
