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Four people share a hospital ward in WW2. A few years later one of them makes it his business to see what had become of the others.

English boy meets married French woman. She leaves her husband for him but leaves him when she becomes pregnant. A few years later he is part of WW1 . . .

596 - 264 = 332 / 4 = 83 ==> 347, 430, 513

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

so far just spoiled rich kids

Hoekom lees ek dit?

Simpatiek en praat die taal

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.