Hope, Christopher

London. 1982. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0710093462. 164 pages. hardcover. Jacket design: Logos Design. keywords: Literature South Africa . FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is an astonishingly subversive collection of tales about South Africa by the author of A Separate Development, the novel which was awarded the David Higham Memorial Prize for 1981. We meet Colonel Rocco ‘Window Jumpin' du Preez and Colonel Jake ‘Dancin' Mphalele, both top-flight security interrogators; and the theology-lecturing-dominie who has problems not only with grace, but with the private parts of Africans and his favourite student's alluringly short skirt. Then there is Hilton, the student radical who out-radicalizes them all including, eventually, himself in a surprising resurrection; and, most movingly, Ndbele, who has to create his own world in order to abide by the rules of a racially obsessed society. As in A Separate Development, Christopher Hope's vivid, humorous vision of both sides of South African life wickedly lays bare the absurdities of apartheid. Private Parts and Other Tales is at once wry, savage, ironic and elegant. inventory #12503 ISBN: 0710093462.