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Unconfessed by Yvette Christiansë takes place in South Africa in the Dutch-speaking Cape Colony in the 1820s. Books about African slavery of the same period are much less common, and I appreciated being enlightened about slavery from a new perspective.

Unconfessed by Yvette Christiansë takes place in South Africa in the Dutch-speaking Cape Colony in the 1820s. Sila was taken from Mozambique to South Africa as a child. She was promised freedom in the will of her mistress Oumiesies. Born under apartheid, South African poet Christiansë (Castaway) dug up a horrific real-life crime in her homeland and used it as the basis for this breathtaking novel.

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Ships from and sold by Choice Deals. And so did the Library Journal. As for my own estimation, Unconfessed is a deliriously beautiful work, one that manages to make the main character, Sila van den Kaap, at once pitiable and admirable. Abused by history and its mendacious masters, she is fierce but also vulnerable, terrifying in her capacity for rage and surprising in her capacity for love, humor and even laughter.

This book was a disappointment. It rehashed and rehashed the same things over and over. I mean I got it the first couple of times but lets move onto something new. The small historical value was good. Sila van den Kaap doesn't recall much about her childhood, but one thing is clear: as a young girl, she was taken from her family in Mozambique and sold to Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony of South.

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The book's title refers to her never confessing to the crime, but cites one word (heartsore) as the rationale for her actions. Borrowing the theme from Toni Morrison's Beloved, Christianse authors a fictional tale based on proven facts. She created a character that seemed as if she could have actually existed at some point in time.

A fiercely poetic literary debut re-creating the life of an 18th-century slave woman in South Africa. A 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award finalist: "Impossible to put down, this work deserves a place beside such classics as Toni Morrison's Beloved and Edward P. Jones's The Known World.

Yvette Christiansë’s first novel, Unconfessed, is an important book precisely because it helps fill this literary void. Addressing the circumstances surrounding one of the most disturbing crimes of the colonial period, it recreates the tormented world of a real historical figure

Yvette Christiansë’s first novel, Unconfessed, is an important book precisely because it helps fill this literary void. Addressing the circumstances surrounding one of the most disturbing crimes of the colonial period, it recreates the tormented world of a real historical figure. Sila, a slave convicted of murder, is first seen in her prison cell in the Dutch settlement of Cape Town, where she receives word that she has been sentenced to years of hard labor on the notorious Robben Island.

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South African–born Christiansë captures not only the breadth and complexity of Sila, a heroine for the ages, but also the moral crisis and political turmoil of 19th-century South Africa. Her masters are not all evil. Nor is Sila, as she herself admits, all good

South African–born Christiansë captures not only the breadth and complexity of Sila, a heroine for the ages, but also the moral crisis and political turmoil of 19th-century South Africa. Nor is Sila, as she herself admits, all good. A gorgeous, devastating song of freedom that will inevitably be compared to Toni Morrison’s Beloved. But it deserves to stand on its own. Pub Date: Nov. 15th, 2006.

Yvette Christiansë (born 12 December 1954) is a South African-born poet and novelist. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at Barnard College. She has also taught at Fordham University, also in New York City

Yvette Christiansë (born 12 December 1954) is a South African-born poet and novelist. She has also taught at Fordham University, also in New York City.