Kruger's Alp - Softcover

Hope, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848871635 ISBN 13: 9781848871632

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2009

Synopsis

Theodore Blanchaille is searching for the missing millions of the Boer leader Paul Kruger, and his lost city of gold. As a child he had heard tales of Kruger from a wayward priest; what follows is an astonishing journey that takes Blanchaille through a landscape peopled with spies, visionaries, terrorists, traitors, patriots and exiled presidents.

From huge transit camps on the veld to a notorious prison block, from a township in the bloody aftermath of 'pacification' to a secret travellers' rest for fleeing pilgrims, and from the streets and cellars of Soho to paradise at last on a Swiss mountainside, Kruger's Alp is a fantastical political satire of extraordinary invention.

About this title

About the Author

CHRISTOPHER HOPE was born in Johannesburg in 1944. He is the author of nine novels, including Kruger's Alp, which won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, Serenity House, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize, and My Mother's Lovers, published by Atlantic Books in 2006 to great acclaim. He is also a poet and playwright and author of the celebrated memoir White Boy Running (1988). The Garden of Bad Dreams is his latest collection of short stories.

From the Back Cover

'One of the dozen best novelists in this country today.' Francis King, Literary Review

Theodore Blanchaille is searching for the missing millions of the Boer leader Paul Kruger and his
lost city of gold. What follows is an astonishing journey that takes Blanchaille through a landscape peopled with spies, visionaries, terrorists, traitors, patriots, and exiled presidents. From huge transit camps on the veld to a notorious prison block, from a township in the bloody aftermath of 'pacification' to a secret travellers' rest for fleeing pilgrims, and from the streets and cellars of Soho to paradise at last on a Swiss mountainside, Kruger's Alp is a fantastical political satire of extraordinary invention.

'The dazzling control of image and metaphor makes it a brilliant literary disquisition on dreams and truth.' Robert Winder, Books & Bookmen

'Hope's invention never flags and his scathing intelligence forcefully points up the sheer, outrageous contradictions of the system.' Spectator

'It's Hope's insistence on doing things the unexpected way that have made him the celebrated writer he is.' Sunday Express

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Edition details

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848871635
• ISBN 13: 9781848871632
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288