The Other Side of Truth
A Historical, Cultural, Fiction book. The Other Side of Truth is a story about a Nigerian girl named Sade who's mother was...
After the murder of their mother, twelve-year-old Sade and her younger brother are smuggled out of Nigeria by their journalist father to escape the corrupt military government and growing violence. They are sent to their uncle in London, but when they arrive, he is missing and they are abandoned, passed between foster homes. Their father escapes to England to find them -- but he will be sent back to Nigeria unless Sade can find a way to tell the world what happened to her family.A Silver Medal winner of England's Smarties Book Prize, Beverly Naidoo's new novel explores the issues of family, exile, and freedom wtih eloquence and stunning realism.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9780064410021 / 64410021
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The Other Side of Truth is a story about a Nigerian girl named Sade who's mother was assassinated due to her father's political views. As a result of her mother's death the family are forced to leave Nigeria. The story follows the plight of the family.This book was used to teach topic to year 6 and linked in well with refugee week at... I am shocked at the number of bad reviews for this book! Although it may not have the most gripping storyline, it highlights important issues around lying, bullying, homelessness and asylum seeking. I enjoyed the book as a whole and think that it makes a change to read such a brutally honest story. This novel really shows some of the complexity surrounding refugees. In this case, 12-year old Sade and her little brother Femi, must leave for London from Nigeria after their mother is killed, due to their father's journalistic reporting about the violence going on in Nigeria. The author herself was forced into exile from South Africa,...
