The Café de Move-On Blues: In Search of the New South Africa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781786490612)

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.

Author: Christopher Hope
ISBN-10: 1786490617
ISBN-13: 9781786490612
Publisher: Atlantic Books (UK)
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2019
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.10d