How To Be A Revolutionary (Paperback)

Beth has been dispatched from Johannesburg to South Africa’s diplomatic mission in this vast Chinese metropolis. Newly divorced, childless, and uneasy about her decision to remain in the employ of a regime she distrusts, she is adrift in her own life. Until she meets Zhao, her upstairs neighbour. Beth has heard him typing late at night, but Zhao insists she must be mistaken. Zhao – older, unmarried, and a former high-ranking Party journalist – becomes Beth’s friend, the one new friend she has allowed her grownup self to make. And then, one day, Zhao is gone, his disappearance followed by the arrival, through her mail slot in the middle of the night, of chunks of typewritten manuscript pages.

Woven into the story are Langston Hughes’s letters to a South African writer about the poet’s own mysterious visit to Shanghai; Zhao’s quest to uncover the truth behind his mother’s disappearance during Communist China’s Great Leap Forward; and the story of Lizzie, a teenager whose decision to join the South African struggle will have far-reaching consequences for the woman she will become.

How To Be A Revolutionary is a bold, daring and poignant exploration of what we owe our countries, ourselves and those we love.

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