Trade Paperback, 312 pages RRP: R185, ISBN 0958419566 (Random House SA) Publication date: April 1998, Category: Current Affairs Description Antjie Krog worked actively for more than two years with the many individuals involved in South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Country of My Skull captures the complexity of the Commission’s work in a uniquely personal narrative that is harrowing, illuminating and provocative. Krog’s powerful prose lures the reader through a mosaic of insights, impressions and themes, taking us into the very heart of what it means to be a South African today. Country of My Skull won the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction writing (1999), an award from the Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture (2000) and the Olive Schreiner Prize for prose (2000). It is included among Africa’s 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century in a list compiled by a panel of the continent’s leading writers and academics. From the reviews No one will tell us more about the struggle for the Afrikaner’s soul; for this book, like the events it reveals, is an act of redemption. - Daily Telegraph Trying to understand the new South Africa without the Truth and Reconciliation Commission would be futile; trying to understand the Commission without this book would be irresponsible. - André Brink Here is the extraordinary reportage of one who, eyes staring into the filthiest places of atrocity, poet’s searing tongue speaking of them, is not afraid to go too far. - Nadine Gordimer Read the Beeld review of 15 June 1998 by Christof Heyns Read the Business Day review of 8 May 1998 by Stephen Laufer Read the Beeld review of 28 April 1998 by Stephanie Nieuwoudt E-mail us a comment on this book. (Comments may be edited and used on this website.) To buy this book www.exclusivebooks.com www.kalahari.net home   writers   books   contact   buy   rights all content © Umuzi, Random House Struik this website designed and maintained by Guanaco.co.za