Kruger's Alp, by Chrisopher Hope

'Extraordinary... brilliantly planned and told' SUNDAY TIMES (JOHANNESBURG)

KRUGER'S ALP is an apocalyptic dream of South Africa past, present and future. It tells the story of priestly renegade Theodore Blanchaille and his search for the legendary gold spirited away by President Kruger to found an earthly paradise. In his wanderings from pulpit to black township, from Johannesburg's fortress prison to Soho underworld, our pilgrim undertakes a bitterly funny odyssey of revelation, betrayal and disillusion which leads him finally to his antiseptic and joyless goal, Kruger's Alp itself... Christopher Hope has written a novel which brilliantly portrays the spiritual and political bankruptcy of a nation going to the wall for its belief in the sanctity of separate lavatories...

'Boldly conceived, highly original...a final image of shattering impact' GUARDIAN

'Anger honed into the bitterest satire and wielded by an acute intelligence which dances most entertainingly around the unacceptable with splendid vigour and bite; but also a plangent lament for the loss of national morality' SPECTATOR

'Mr Hope's barely controlled rage recalls Swift as he relentlessly exposes the anti-logic of authoritarian power in the acid bath of his scorn' NEW YORK TIMES

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