The Shouting in the Dark - Tapa blanda

'The story, as disturbing as it is enthralling, of a girl's struggle to emerge from under the dead weight of her father's oppression while at the same time searching for a secure footing in the moral chaos of South Africa of the apartheid era.' JM Coetzee 'Readable, tangible and haunting.' Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth 'A beautiful evocation of childhood. Like colours slowly blooming downstream.' Nadeem Aslam, author of Maps for Lost Lovers

Ella is locked in a battle for creative survival with her domineering father, and apartheid South Africa, the troubled country in which he passionately believes. Whilst seeking political refuge in Europe Ella makes an unexpected discovery that forces her to confront both her father's war ghosts and the shape of her own future. In the country of his birth, her father, Ella finds, never officially recognized her existence. Boehmer has written a raw, intense and involving story.