by Beverley Naidoo · Puffin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141304762
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«The Other Side of Truth» is Beverley Naidoo's young adult novel, published by Puffin in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Sade and her brother Femi flee from Nigeria to London after their mother's murder. Their father, a journalist critical of the military regime, has promised to join them, but the woman who smuggled them out of the country abandons them at Victoria Station. The novel explores the experience of being a refugee and the stigma of being illegal.
Winner of the Carnegie Medal in 2000 and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award in 2002. First instalment of the «The Other Side of Truth» series.
A young adult novel for readers aged eleven and up, with an interest in stories about migration, refuge and social protest.
Beverley Naidoo is a South African author of children's books who lives in the UK. Her first three novels featured life in South Africa where she lived until her twenties. She has also written a biography of the trade unionist Neil Aggett.
