The Café de Move-On Blues : In Search of the New South Africa
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 30 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 color 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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781786490612
- ISBN-10: 1786490617
- Publisher: Atlantic Books (UK)
- Publish Date: September 2019
- Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
- Page Count: 336
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