Jimfish

Name: Jimfish
ISBN: 9780857898074

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In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, South Africa, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby.

The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by color, and thereby determine their fate, peers at the boy, then sticks a pencil into his hair, as one did in those days, waiting to see if it stays there, or falls out before he gives his verdict: 'He's very odd, this Jimfish you've hauled in.

If he's white he is not the right sort of white.

But if he's black, who can say? We'll wait before we classify him.

I'll give his age as 18, and call him Jimfish.

Because he's a real fish out of water, this one is.

' So begins the odyssey of Jimfish, a South African Everyman, who defies the usual classification of race that defines the rainbow nation.

His journey through the last years of Apartheid will extend beyond the borders of South Africa to the wider world, where he will be an unlikely witness to the defining moments of the dying days of the 20th century.

Part fable, part fierce commentary on the politics of power, this work is the culmination of a lifetime's writing and thinking, on both the Apartheid regime and the history of the 20th century, by a writer of enormous originality and range.

First published: 2016
Publishers: Atlantic Books· Limited
Language: English

About Christopher Hope

He studied at universities of Witwatersrand and Natal. He is an author of poems and novels, also published autobiography, biography of Robert Mugabe, dictator of Zimbabwe, and travel book Moscow! Moscow!, which he got prestige PEN Award. Debut novel A Separate Development (1981), satire on apartheid system, forbidden in South Africa, got the David Higham Prize for Fiction....

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