From an extremely distinguished and wildly imaginative novelist, thisstory goes right to the broken heart of his home country, South Africa, as a man returns to the city after decades in hiding to find out what happened to the woman he loved
Somehow, Joe Angel, the most famous businessman in the country, had found Charlie in the backwater where hehad been hiding all these years. He'darrived unannounced to give him an envelope full of money and a simple message: come back to the Capital to learn what really happened to Constanza the woman he loved on that terrible night decades before. At...
From an extremely distinguished and wildly imaginative novelist, thisstory goes right to the broken heart of his home country, South Africa, as a m...
Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize,2019 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...
Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize,2019 In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped b...
