Andy McDougall's Reviews > Uma Outra Voz

Uma Outra Voz is a highly original, innovative and rich work of literary fiction. Its clever blend of the collective and the individual – the family story and the personal story, the history of a nation and the lives of ordinary people – ensures that it is compelling, relatable and deeply human. It is a strength of the book that each voice is at once self-contained and important to the novel as a whole. They have their own separate identities, but through each is woven the thread that binds the novel together and only read as a set do we see the full picture. Running themes, stories and intrigues crop up across the different voices and we are given different perspectives on certain events. As we proceed, we can put together the pieces of the overall puzzle and come to understand that it takes many voices to tell a story.

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