A Change of Tongue

by Antjie Krog

Overview

Identity, belonging and voyages of personal discovery are but some of the themes inventively explored in Antjie Krog’s first full-length work to appear in English since the publication of Country of My Skull. In times of fundamental change, people tend to find a space, lose it and then find another space as life and the world transform around them. What does this metamorphosis entail and in what ways are we affected by it? How do we live through it and what may we become on our journey towards each other, particularly when the space and places from which we depart are – at least on the surface – vastly different? Ranging freely and often wittily across many terrains, this brave book by one of South Africa’s foremost writers and poets provides a unique and compelling discourse on living creatively in South Africa.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781770222885
Publisher:	Penguin Random House South Africa
Publication date:	04/13/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	376
File size:	849 KB

About the Author

Antjie Krog has published many volumes of poetry, three of them collections of children’s verse: Mankepank en ander monsters, Voëls van anderste vere and Fynbos Fairies. She has been awarded the Hertzog Prize, and is the author of the acclaimed Country of My Skull, which won the Alan Paton and the Olive Schreiner Award. She lives in Cape Town.