{"product_id":"cafe-de-move-on-blues-book-christopher-hope-9781786490599","title":"The Cafe de Move-on Blues","description":"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 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49589361770769,"sku":"GOR009590058","price":11.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1786490595.jpg?v=1769162319","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/cafe-de-move-on-blues-book-christopher-hope-9781786490599","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}