Returning to the bones of home – The Mail & Guardian

Returning to the bones of home – The Mail & Guardian

This is a lightly edited excerpt from South African author Antjie Krog’s autobiographical novel Blood’s Inner Rhyme. It’s my first visit to the Free State after spending almost a year overseas. As I turn the rented car from Bram Fischer Airport north onto the N1, my eyes throw themselves like obsessed lovers on the landscape of my youth. The world is all winter-sky, grass and harvested maizefields. I want to grasp this specific colour of grass w…