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Title: Country of My Skull : Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa by Antjie Krog ISBN: 0-8129-3129-7 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: catharsis for afrikaners
Comment: This book struck me, as an Afrikaner, as a catharsis in itself. It enacts what it describes. It is its own peculiar truth commission for each reader. Foreign readers will not share this special experience, but will be absolutely enthralled by the poetic rendition of what appears to be a struggle to get to grips, in literary terms, with an immense personal experience. There are some very disturbing parts. My criticism is that the self-conscious literary symbolism at times appears to be strained, and to be at odds with the dialogue, or with the dramatic moment. What is essentially brooding cogitation is often presented rather implausibly as natural dialogue. It should be remembered that Krog is a poet. One should read the book as one would a dramatic monologue displaying someone trying to cope with a confused flood of guilt, elation, sadness and hope. And racial shame. The book represents an experience well worth the inevitable depression that will accompany its reading. It is also an extremely successful presentation, in digestible and dramatic format, of a phenomenon that remains crucial to the post-apartheid South African reality. It is, in other words, good history and good journalism as well as good poetry.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unsettling stories from the apartheid amnesty hearings.
Comment: I bought my copy of "The Country of My Skull" while on a trip to South AFrica in August, 1998. This is the first-hand observers view of the South African apartheid amnesty hearing in front of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu).
This is a gripping and unsettling book. Hard to read because of the intensity of the tales that are retold by the author. But this is an important book because we learn again the extent of man's inhumanity to man.
If you are interested in South Africa, politics, racial relationships, or human struggle against injustice, this is a "must read" book. Nothing like it has ever been published.
Rating: 4
Summary: Insightful
Comment: Here is a complex book that scratches the surface of a very complex ordeal; Apartheid. Krog gives a very personal report on the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission, a Committee charged with hearing the crimes of perpetrators in Apartheid and deciding on their amnesty respectively. Her language is very emotional at times, even suspiciously involved. You can sense in her writing her own struggle to explore the apathy of her own ethnicity, the white Afrikaaner, in the face of such atrocities.
Overall, a very complex book. I couldn't put this one down and finished it in about 3 days. If you have an interest in Apartheid you may gain new insight on the matter after having read this.
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Title: A History of South Africa, Third Edition by Leonard Monteath Thompson, Leonard L. Thompson ISBN: 0300087764 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: A Human Being Died That Night : A South African Story of Forgiveness by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela ISBN: 0618211896 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 23 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela ISBN: 0316548189 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu ISBN: 0385496907 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 17 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience by Rian Malan ISBN: 0802136842 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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