Country of My Skull
by Antjie Krog
Truth and Reconciliation, from inside the room.
you want to understand what it actually sounded like when South Africa tried to reckon with what it had done
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Krog is an Afrikaner poet who covered the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for South African radio — sitting in the room as survivors testified, as perpetrators applied for amnesty, as the country tried to process twenty years of state terror through language. This book is her dispatch from inside that process — the horror of what she heard, the question of whether reconciliation is possible, her own complicity as an Afrikaner. The most emotionally complete account of the TRC ever written. You come out of it understanding both the necessity and the inadequacy of what was attempted.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- South Africa • Southern Africa
- Voice
- Written by a South African author
- Themes
- After Empire
