The Cafe De Move On Blues: In Search Of The New South Africa

Author: Christopher Hope

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Price : 33.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781786495235
Publisher : Atlantic Books, Limited
Imprint : Atlantic Books
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Publication date : April 2018
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Out of print date : August 2019
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Author : Christopher Hope
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 968.074092
Pages : 336
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In 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.