Kruger's Alp - Softcover

Hope, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140077316 ISBN 13: 9780140077315

Publisher: Penguin, 1986

Synopsis

Priestly renegade Theodore Blanchaille's quest for a treasure taken out of South Africa by the Boer leader Paul Kruger takes him around the world and through exotic revelations of betrayal, disillusion, and violence

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Review

"'An extremely attractive book, witty and fast-moving and densely imagined' Sunday Times 'Boldly conceived, highly original... It's grey, streaked with crimson, shot through with that dream gold.' Norman Shrapnel, Guardian 'It's Hope's insistence on doing things the unexpected way that have made him the celebrated writer he is.' Sunday Express 'Hope's invention never flags and his scathing intelligence forcefully points up the sheer, outrageous contradictions of the system.' Mary Hope, Spectator 'The dazzling control of image and metaphor makes it a brilliant literary disquisition on dreams and truth, as well as on South Africa.' Robert Winder, Books & Bookmen"

Book Description

Winner of the 1985 Whitbread Prize for Fiction: Kruger's Alp moves from pulpit to black township, from Johannesburg's fortress prison to the underworld of Soho as we follow renegade priest Theodore Blanchaille in his search for the legendary gold spirited away by President Kruger in order to found an earthly paradise.

'An extremely attractive book, witty and fast-moving and densely imagined' Sunday Times

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140077316
• ISBN 13: 9780140077315
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288