My Mother's Lovers (Hardcover)

Once it seemed to Kathleen Healey that Africa was empty and all of it belonged to her. An aviator, big-game hunter, and knitting devotee who once boxed three rounds with Ernest Hemingway in a Kenyan gym, she would land her plane wherever and whenever she chose. She was free with her favors, too, and her multitude of lovers came from all over the world. In this lyrical and taut novel, the highly acclaimed writer and Man Booker Prize finalist Christopher Hope moves back and forth in time to portray the moving story of the past fifty years of white presence in South Africa--from the start of apartheid to the surprising events of the past decade. Bitingly funny, inventive, and peopled with a fantastic cast of characters, My Mother's Lovers is an epic tragicomedy, fierce and radiant as our enduring romance with Africa.