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The Cafe de Move-on Blues

In Search of the New South Africa

Christopher Hope

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English
Murdoch Books
01 June 2018
From one of South Africa's finest writers comes a powerful exploration of politics, race and population in the post-Apartheid era.

In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored what it looked and felt like to grow up in a country gripped by an 'absurd, racist insanity'. Now comes Cafe de Move-on Blues, Hope's contemplation of the situation white South Africans find themselves in today, post-Apartheid. Emigration is accelerating at a rate never seen before, diasporas are spreading from Winnipeg to Wimbledon, and the spectre of neighbouring Zimbabwe looms large as violence spreads. As one by one, the old imperial idols, from Cecil Rhodes to Paul Kruger, are pulled from their pedestals, Hope ponders the question: 'Who is next?'

In this intimate and powerful portrait of race, politics and people in South Africa today, Hope, yet again, uses his mesmerising prose to get to the heart of the issue, and to reveal what can be done to stem the flow of whites leaving the rainbow nation.

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Imprint:   Murdoch Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Export/Airside
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 75mm
Weight:   525g
ISBN:   9781786495235
ISBN 10:   1786495236
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg in 1944. He is the author of nine novels and one collection of short stories, including Kruger's Alp, which won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, Serenity House, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize, My Mother's Lovers and Shooting Angels, published by Atlantic Books in 2012 to great acclaim. He is also a poet and playwright and author of the celebrated memoir White Boy Running 1988).

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 *


  • Long-listed for RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019 (UK)

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