# The Cafe de Move-on Blues

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- Book: [The Cafe de Move-on Blues](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-hope/the-cafe-de-move-on-blues) ([The Cafe de Move-on Blues.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-hope/the-cafe-de-move-on-blues.md))
- Authors: [Christopher Hope](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-hope)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- ISBN: 978-17-8649-061-2
- Published: 2019-05-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize,2019 ‘Hope writes with extraordinary exuberance and invention.’ – Literary Review In White Boy Running , Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an ‘absurd, racist insanity’. In The Cafe de Move-on Blues , on a road trip thirty years later, Christopher goes in search of today’s South Africa; post-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: W hat 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.