Textures of Silence

by Gordon Vorster

Book by Vorster, Gordon

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

Reviews

[Wilna Panagos · Rating 5 out of 5]

A masterful and moving novel about a man, blind and deaf since he was a baby, whose sight and hearing was restored when he was in his thirties or forties thanks to the advancement of medical science. The telling of his experience growing up without two of his senses in his dysfunctional home on a farm in South Africa during the first half of the twentieth century, and the wonder of being reborn to the world of sight and sound when he had already been alive and functioning as a human for half a lifetime.
The story told by the various people in his life, the black woman who helped to raise him, his mother, his father, the nurse, the doctor, and ultimately himself.