The Cafe de Move-On Blues: In Search of the New South Africa
Author(s): Christopher Hope
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.
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- : Atlantic Books, Limited
- : Atlantic Books
- : 01 April 2018
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- : 01 August 2019
- : books
Special Fields
- : Christopher Hope
- : Paperback
- : 618
- : English
- : 968.074092
- : 336