The Cafe de Move-on Blues

In Search of the New South Africa

Christopher Hope

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Atlantic Books
03 June 2019

History; Social discrimination; Ethnic studies; Politics & government; Travel writing

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.

By: Christopher Hope
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 315g
ISBN: 9781786490612
ISBN 10: 1786490617
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 03 June 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg in 1944. He is the author of Kruger's Alp, which won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, Serenity House, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize, as well as My Mother's Lovers and Shooting Angels, which were both published to great acclaim. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Reviews for The Cafe de Move-on Blues: In Search of the New South Africa

A brilliant, compelling novel about innocence and betrayal * The Times for 'My Mother's Lovers' * Breathtaking to the very end * Guardian on 'My Mother's Lovers' * Marvellously chilling * The Times on 'White Boy Running' * Hope writes with extraordinary exuberance and invention. * Literary Review *