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Title: The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo ISBN: 0-06-441002-1 Publisher: Amistad Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: truth
Comment: A truly sad book, but a good choice for the Carnegie Medal. It sweeps you away to England where most of the story takes place. You feel like your there. For ages eleven through around twenty.
The main character, Sade and her brother, Femi have to go to England after they saw their mother's murder. Their father is a journalist who writes the truth and Nigerian soldiers want him dead. They have to go to England separately and use different names. They get there but they can't find their uncle. Where could he be? They journey through the streets of England looking for any kind of shelter.
Where is their uncle? Who will take care of them? Will they ever get home to their family? Will they ever see their family again? How will they get over this terrible nightmare? Read "The Other Side of Truth."
Rating: 4
Summary: THE OTHER SIDE OF TRUTH: Emotional and Moving
Comment: A shape rose up from the deeper shaddows of the alley.
"Clear off! This place is mine!" the man growled like an old lion defending his den. His arm swept out toward Femi and Sade's bag and snatched it.
The children had no chance of retrieving their bag. They fled.
This is an exciting quote from Beverly Naidoo's THE OTHER SIDE OF TRUTH.
Without anyplace to go, or anyone to ask for help, the two Nigerian children are faced with a difficult situation. When their mother is shot because their father wrote the truth about the country's government, their family fears for their safety and ships them off to London to live with their Uncle Dele. But Femi and Sade's troubles begin when Uncle Dele is nowhere to be found. They are now homeless and desperate.
Eventually, Social Services takes them in, and puts them in a foster home. But Femi and Sade's troubles ane far from over. In the next months, they encounter racist bullies at school, cruel security personnel, and people who, little by little try to pry the truth out of them. All the while, Sade struggles with her emotions, and Femi is in a world of his own. But the real drama starts when Father tries to rescue them and ends up in prison, and Uncle Dele still can't be located. The children don't know what will become of them. They wish their lives were as they used to be, and that none of this had ever happened.
THE OTHER SIDE OF TRUTH is beautifully written with well developed characters. It illustrates the fate of many Africans far better than any history book coould. It's fast-paced and exciting. I'd recommend this book to anyone, although girls could definately relate better to the main character than boys.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Other Side Of Truth
Comment: "Papa is knealing in the driveway,Mama partly curled up against him one bare leg stretches out in front of her.His hands grip her trying to halt the growing scarlet monster.But it has already spread down her bright white nurses uniform. It stains the earth around them". That is a qoutes from the novel "The other Side Of Truth" by Beverly Naidoo. How would you feel if your mother was killed?
The main characters in tis book are two siblings from Nigeria names Sade and Femi. Their father was an outspoken jourlinest who wrote an article in the newspaper about Nigeria's cruel and corrupt governement. The government wasn't pleased so one day the government came and killed their mother. For the childrens protection they were smuggled into London by a woman pretending to be their mother. They were supposed to meet their uncle Dele there. For some reason uncle Dele wasn't there to meet them. Nobody knew where he was!
Sade and Femi find themselves lost and alone in London. They later get picked up by the police and have to answer questions on how they came to England. Both of them get put into a foster family and go to a school. In Sade's school to bullies pick on Sade and make her steal a cigarette lighter from her best friends' shop. Sade steals the cigarette lighter and starts to feel guilty. She doesn't know whether to tell her friend the truth or not. Look what the truth did to her mother.
I think this is a very powerful and deeply moving book. The author builds tremendous suspense. Beverly Naidoo in this story blends fiction with non-fiction. It gives information about Nigerian government and adds these fictional and non-fictional characters. I hear the authors voice, pervasively through the book and it feels like I'm in the main characters shoes. I think the strongest ponits in the book are the parts with Sade and Femi's mother and father. I think Beverley really describes them well. Sade's father and mother are always saying powerful proverbs like " Sorrow is like a precious treasure shown only to friends". The flashbacks with Sade and Femi's mother and father are very well written too. I think the weak points in the book are towards the middle where social worlers are questioning Sade and Femi about how they came to London. Beverley Naidoo uses sensory images. The message is that it is not always the best thing to tell the truth. I would reccomend this book to you if you like passionate and emotional books becuase thats what this book is. Beverley Naidoo has also written "Journey to Jo'Burg" and she has won the Carnegie Award for "The Other Side of Truth".
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