9781786490599

The Cafe de Move-On Blues

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781786490599

Hardcover|9781786490599


Overview

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.

ISBN-13

9781786490599

ISBN-10

1786490595

Weight

1.51 Pounds

Dimensions

6.25 x 1.20 x 9.25 In

List Price

$32.95

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

336 pages

Publisher

Atlantic Books

Published On

2018-05-03



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