{"product_id":"the-cafe-de-move-on-blues-in-search-of-the-new-south-africa-by-christopher-hope","title":"The Cafe de Move-on Blues: In Search of the New South Africa by Christopher Hope","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781786495235\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAtlantic Books, May 2018\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e336 pages, Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhite Boy Running\u003c\/span\u003e, 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: \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ewhat next?\u003c\/span\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50804501217442,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/91FoAa6z8rL._SL1500.jpg?v=1793703320","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/the-cafe-de-move-on-blues-in-search-of-the-new-south-africa-by-christopher-hope","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}