The Cafe de Move-on Blues : In Search of the New South Africa Hardback
by Christopher Hope
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Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize,2019In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an 'absurd, racist insanity'.
On a road trip thirty years later, Hope goes in search of today's South Africa; post the evils of apartheid, but also post the dashed hopes and dreams of Mandela, of a future when race and colour would not count.
He finds a country still in the grip of a ruling party intent only on caring for itself, to the exclusion of all others; a country where racial divides are deeper than ever. As the old imperial idols of Cecil Rhodes and Paul Kruger are literally pulled from their pedestals in a mass yearning to destroy the past, Hope ponders the question: what next? Framed as a travelogue, this is a darkly comic, powerful and moving portrait of South Africa - an elegy to a living nation, which is still mad and absurd.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Atlantic Books
- Publication Date:03/05/2018
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- ISBN:9781786490599
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Atlantic Books
- Publication Date:03/05/2018
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- ISBN:9781786490599