Gerty Janse van Rensburg

This novel is a gondola ride through a desert of desolation, loss and grief: thickly layered, excellently blended and echoed and brilliantly tied together; in eloquent, powerful and poetic prose. It is a hymn to all the lost refugee children, who desperately clung to the hope of eventually ''crossing the bridge in a new car, where there would be buildings of glass..." The children are lost, but their echoes remain. A profound work of intelligence and insight, that leaves a deep emotional echo.