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Karel Schoeman has repeatedly acknowledged his debt to British writer L. P. Hartley's famous dictum that "the past is a foreign county: they do things differently there," though Schoeman's concern is less with the behaviors of his country’s inhabitants, and more with the difficulty involved in traveling to its shores. Indeed, he writes early in this novel: "Die verlede is 'n ander lan ,,Stemme''-bande hanteer die ste

Net soos in die ander ,,Stemme''-boeke beskryf hy die kleindorpie-samelewing baie noukeurig en geloofbaar. Hoe almal almal ken en alles van mekaar weet.