The Long Way Home

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Dana Snyman. The Long Way Home

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Author’s Note

About the author

About Dana Snyman’s work

By the same author

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For Ingrid

I drive slower and slower under the low-hanging clouds.

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The separate marriages and separate neighbourhoods and separate hospitals and separate schools and separate parks and separate beaches, and the police who enforced the laws to keep everyone separate, only came much later.

I go back inside the museum. Tiaan the guide comes over again. He shakes his head when I ask whether Christoffel is buried here. A team of archaeologists came to the farm to dig, searching for graves and the remains of buildings, but no one was able to find his grave. “But why are you looking for his grave?” He strokes his sparse beard. “Are you writing everything about the Snymans, sir? Then you must talk to oom Koos. He’s a Snyman. He lives just over there.”

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