The other side of silence

Description:

As a small child in wintry Bremen, Hanna dreams about escaping from years of abuse in the orphanage and in service. She joins a shipload of young women transported in the early years of the 20th century to the colony of South-West Africa to assuage the needs of the male settlers.

subjects: Women colonists,  Fiction,  Young women,  Colonies,  Women prisoners,  Germans,  History,  Fiction, historical, general,  Africa, fiction,  Young women, fiction,  German colonies,  Roman

Places: Southern Africa,  Namibia,  Germany

Times: 20th century