ISBN: 9798235448629 - whistle in the window pane (5 resultados)

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Whistle in the Window PaneOn a September night in the North West, a seventeen-year-old boy makes the only choice the world has left him, and the woman who survives it makes a different one. Her lie is not spectacular. It is the ordinary kind - partial, frightened, built around by a powerful husband before she fully understands what she has said. Two young men receive thirty years each. She drives south.Twenty years later, a man walks out of a correctional facility with an honours degree, a counselling practice, and an NGO whose name means 'progress.' A woman in Mahikeng runs a property empire with the focused precision of someone who has been building against absence her entire life. She does not know yet that the man hosting the launch she has been talked into attending is woven into the story of who she is. He does not know yet that she is the reason the story was never finished.When the truth begins to move, it does not announce itself. It comes the way it always comes in the North West - building in the west over many hours, patient and enormous, and then arriving all at once.Whistle in the Window Pane is a novel about judicial corruption, racial shame, and the slow, irreversible force of truth. It is also, unmistakably, a love story - about what it costs to let someone see you, and what it means, finally, to be seen. …

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Whistle in the Window PaneOn a September night in the North West, a seventeen-year-old boy makes the only choice the world has left him, and the woman who survives it makes a different one. Her lie is not spectacular. It is the ordinary kind - partial, frightened, built around by a powerful husband before she fully understands what she has said. Two young men receive thirty years each. She drives south.Twenty years later, a man walks out of a correctional facility with an honours degree, a counselling practice, and an NGO whose name means 'progress.' A woman in Mahikeng runs a property empire with the focused precision of someone who has been building against absence her entire life. She does not know yet that the man hosting the launch she has been talked into attending is woven into the story of who she is. He does not know yet that she is the reason the story was never finished.When the truth begins to move, it does not announce itself. It comes the way it always comes in the North West - building in the west over many hours, patient and enormous, and then arriving all at once.Whistle in the Window Pane is a novel about judicial corruption, racial shame, and the slow, irreversible force of truth. It is also, unmistakably, a love story - about what it costs to let someone see you, and what it means, finally, to be seen. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …