Author: Christopher Hope

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

Binding: Hardcover

Number Of Pages: 336

Release Date: 2018-05-03

Details: 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.

EAN: 9781786490599

Package Dimensions: Height: 9.25 Inches, Length: 6.25 Inches, Weight: 1.4881202685 Pounds, Width: 1.2 Inches

Languages: en