CASUALTIES OF TRUTH by Lauren Francis-Sharma - The Washington Post 'How ‘Casualties of Truth’ drew on a novelist’s experience in South Africa'

The Washington Post | February 12, 2025

Lauren Francis-Sharma’s new novel opens on an unsettling note, as a police officer nurses his injuries from the day’s work — “The American girl had done some real damage,” he thinks — and then finds that his car tires have been slashed.

The events that trigger that act of vandalism, and the violence unleashed afterwards, are the engine of “Casualties of Truth.” It draws on the author’s firsthand experience in South Africa, observing hearings held by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which heard testimony about human rights abuses committed by the state during the apartheid years, as well as violations committed by the liberation movements.

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