Miné Venter Reviews Till We Can Keep An Animal by Megan Voysey-Braig
Verdict: stick
Despite packing a tremendous punch in the beginning, however, the novel loses its impact as the increasingly predictable and unconvincing plot develops. The narrative successfully begins by giving voice to the extreme pain and sense of powerlessness experienced by every crime-weary South African; however, it devolves into an onslaught about everything that has ever gone wrong with South Africa. This is where it all goes wrong: although Voysey-Braig succeeds in grabbing the attention of her readers (whether they are willing or not), a certain sense of disconnection manifests. The central message conveyed through the characters and their individual stories is that, as the story unfolds and the sometimes gripping images are digested, someone is being raped, or murdered, or worse still, someone is being raped and murdered and left to deal on their own with the remaining scars. This embodiment of both individual and collective scarring left behind by generations worth of violence is overshadowed by the novel’s tendency to transform itself into a violent declamation.
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- Till We Can Keep An Animal by Megan Voysey-Braig
EAN: 9781770096394
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