A Chain of Voices is a 1982 novel by Afrikaans writer André Brink. The novel is a historical novel which recounts the roots of the apartheid system during the early part of the 19th century. The novel focuses on a slave revolt center in the country north-east of Cape Town. The novel uses a coalition of voices, representing the whole range of social groups in South Africa.

Reception

The New York Times reviewer Julian Moynahan called the novel the best novel he had read since Robert Stone's A Flag for Sunrise and described it as "massive and ambitious, and surpassing Brink's previous apartheid novel A Dry White Season.

A Chain of Voices

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Further reading

1982 novels

Fiction set in the 1830s

Afrikaans literature

20th-century South African novels

Historical novels

Novels set in South Africa

Novels by André Brink

Faber and Faber books

A Chain of Voices