BOOK REVIEW: Majestic novel uncovers the hidden history of a forgotten war
Oppressive with heartbreak, Damian Barr’s book ‘You Will Be Safe Here’ bears witness to the horrors of war
04 July 2019 - 05:05
This is the story of how the value of a single life is weighed, and what that says about a nation’s collective morality.
You Will Be Safe Here has its genesis in the relatively recent heinous killing of 15-year old Raymond Buys at the Echo Wild Game Rangers paramilitary camp near Vereeniging. It’s straightforward to retrieve, online, the shocking photograph of the comatose boy in hospital days before he succumbed to 60 injuries sustained from repeated beatings over 10 weeks in 2011...
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