Product Description
Blood’s Inner Rhyme
Author: Antjie Krog
Format: Paperback
Poet Antjie Krog returns to the landscape of her childhood. The Free State plains enchant her – it is her home, and the home of her mother, the writer Dot Serfontein. In her nineties, Dot is frail and needs full-time care, but her intellect and sense of humour are razor-sharp, and her writing is comparable to that of her daughter.
In Blood’s Inner Rhyme, Antjie Krog breaks the boundaries between genres and writes about this relationship that continues to fascinate and torment her. Using letters, diary entries and care-home records, the book explores creative influence, ideological disagreements and the realities of ageing.
Krog exposes the insurmountable differences between generations but also shows the love and mutual admiration between two highly skilled writers. Beautifully and poignantly written, Blood’s Inner Rhyme delves into cultural heritage, the country's Anglo-Boer War history, issues of land ownership and race, as well as romantic relationships across racial boundaries. The story of the relationship between mother and daughter, this is Krog’s most personal book, as well as the most universal.
About the Author
Antjie Krog is gebore en word groot in die Vrystaat. Sy was sewentien toe haar eerste digbundel verskyn. Hierna volg ’n verdere dertien bundels. Sy was redakteur van die politieke tydskrif Die Suid-Afrikaan en werk later as radiojoernalis. Sy is internasionaal veral bekend vir haar boek Country of my skull, ’n persoonlike verslag van die Waarheid-en-versoeningskommissie. Vir haar joernalistieke werk is sy met die Pringle-toekenning bekroon. Sy is ook die skrywer van ’n Ander tongval en Begging to be black. Krog ontvang die belangrikste toekennings in die genres waarin sy werk: poësie, niefiksie en vertaling, onder meer die Eugène Marais-prys, die Hertzogprys, die Alan Paton-prys en die Olive Schreiner-prys. Sy is vereer met die Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation se Stockholm-toekenning, die Sentraal-Europese Universiteit se Open Society Prize en die Nederlandse Gouden Ganzenveer. Sy is getroud met die argitek John Samuel.
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