In de Turkse krant RADIKAL stond een recensie van TUNA KİREMİTÇİ over De stomme zonde. Hij legde daarin een verband tussen een recente uitspraak van de Turkse minister Aliye Kavaf en een uitspraak van een van de personages uit De stomme zonde.
'During the days when Turkish State Minister Responsible for Women and Families Aliye Kavaf defined homosexuality as " a biological disorder", even "a disease" and some people supported her, I found an interesting book: the novel "Günah" by Anja Sicking, Dutch author born in 1965.
Literature is really an interesting branch of art: a novel you write about the past of your own country can fit the actuality of another country like a glove...
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While I was reading the book, it seemed to me that Anna does not just work as a maid for De Malapert: She looks after him like a wife, a sister, or even a mother, but then we understand that it is an impossible love for someone because De Malapert is a gay man...
"I would have given almost anything to be able to speak to him, even now that I knew which outrages he had been accused of. It was a misplaced love, but no weaker for all of that."
Love for a gay man by a woman in emotional distress forms the backbone of the novel...
... I also need to say that Anja Sicking is a professional musician. When she writes the novel she benefits from her classical music education perfectly. She depicts De Malapert's melancholic world in such an elaborate detail that only a musician can do.
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With its atmosphere and love of music, Sicking's novel reminds us a little Alain Courneau's film "Tous les matind du Monde". But it was adapted from the novel, wasn't it? The author told us about his sins he had committed when he was young just like the poor Anna confused with fear of God talking about her body...'
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