Brothers Under The Skin - Travels in Tyranny

A brilliant examination of Robert Mugabe dictatorship and the nature of modern tyranny, written by an award winning novelist and journalist.Christopher Hope met his first dictator when he was 6 years old. Dr Henrik Verwoerd was a neighbour of the Hope family and went on to become the architect of apartheid. He was the first, but not the last. In this remarkable book, Christopher Hope searches out the unmistakable 'perfume' that marks out a tyrant, a tyrant like Robert Mugabe. Hope though the days of Verwoerd were gone until Robert Mugabe began to mimic the old Doctor. Hope dissects the person and presumption of Mugabe, the mixture of terror and comedy that makes up his dictatorship. Furthermore Perfume of a Tyrant describes the nature of modern tyranny, its wild paranoia, its murderous conviction of righteousness, its narrow depleted vocabulary and its inability to concede power, however small. Even though modern tyranny is not exclusively Zimbabwean, African or European, in Robert Mugabe is its leading exponent

About the author

Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1944 and moved to London in 1975. He is the author of twelve novels including Kruger’s Alp, winner of the Whitbread Novel Award, and the Booker short-listed Serenity House. Hope's non-fiction includes a highly praised volume of autobiography, White Boy Running (1988) and a travel book, Moscow! Moscow! (1990), which won a PEN Award.

Summary

The renowned, South African author’s reflections on the character of modern tyranny, as exemplified in the person of Robert Mugabe.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Hope
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2014
• EAN: 9781447259749
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-5974-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Guides; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Zimbabwe, Political leaders & leadership, Biography: historical, political and military, Political oppression and persecution, Presidents & Heads of State