The Hottentot Room, an exclusive club for African exiles in Earl's Court, is ruled over by the eccentric and beautiful Frau Katie, a refugee from Nazi Germany. Now lying on her deathbed, she is surrounded by her increasingly restless subjects who find their old divisions rising to the surface.
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The Hottentot Room, an exclusive club for African exiles in Earl's Court, is ruled over by the eccentric and beautiful Frau Katie, a refugee from Nazi Germany. Now lying on her deathbed, she is surrounded by her increasingly restless subjects who find their old divisions rising to the surface.
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Add this copy of The Hottentot Room to cart. $4.00, like new condition, Sold by Garys Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Apache Junction, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Farrar Straus & Giroux.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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New York. 1987. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374172846. 217 pages. hardcover. Jacket art by Michael Munday. Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat. keywords: Literature South Africa. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The Hottentot Room is a club in London where Caleb Looper, a deported South African journalist, meets his fellow exiles. Black and white, famous and indigent, communist and traditionalist, ‘the tribe' are an extremely odd lot, bound together by their nostalgia for their homeland and their loyalty to the Room's proprietor, Frau Katie, a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany, who has made it her life's mission to provide a home for these lost South African souls. Frau Katie's daughter, known as English Rose, despises her mother's fierce nostalgia for her prewar German life and her refusal to accept the present. Now Frau Katie is dying, and Rose has expansionist plans for the Hottentot Room, plans which include Looper, with whom she has been having a secret affair, but which terrify the other members of the club. And Looper, too, is at a desperate turning point. Christopher Hope's engaging comic fantasy about South Africans-and others-awash in the tides of history bristles with ironies, contradictions, reversals, and telling lessons about racial and political identity. The Hottentot Room has been widely praised by English critics: ‘A rich and complex novel' (London Magazine); ‘memorably poignant and ironic' (Sunday Telegraph); ‘sparks of boisterous, caustic satire in all directions' (The Observer). This is a dark and riotous hallucinatory vision of unreal but actual absurdities by one of South Africa's most gifted writers. inventory #8429.
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