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My Mother's Lovers: A Novel
My Mother's Lovers: A Novel
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Published:
1 September, 2006
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"My Mother's Lovers" draws on the memories of a son who recalls and immortalises his mother - a glamorous safari pilot and the daughter of a prodigious family, part Irish, part English, part African. The men she brings into the house refract the story of the whites in South Africa, whose sorry history runs from the Boer War, through both World Wars, to the loss of power in the 1990s. "My Mother's Lovers" is Hope's most ambitious work, yet and the novel he has been waiting to write for many years. Peopled with unforgettable characters who endure the most incredible and appalling events, it is an epic tragicomedy, as dark as the European romancing of Africa.
Prizes
Shortlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2007.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781843543824 |
| ISBN10 | 1843543826 |
| Number Of Pages | 448 |
| Item Weight | 661 g |
| Product Dimensions | 144 x 42 x 216 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Atlantic Books |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | Main |
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Author's Bio
Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg in 1944. He is the author of seven novels, including Kruger's Alp, which won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, and Serenity House, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize. He is also a poet and playwright and author of the celebrated memoir White Boy Running (1988).