Signs of the Heart : Love and Death in Languedoc

by Christopher Hope

Signs of the Heart is Christopher Hope's account of life in a remote village in rural France. When he moved there a few years ago he encountered a cast of characters one would expect to find in his fiction.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Catrien Deys]

Some books should never end. This is one of them. It is not because of the French village life, that makes it so alluring, but because of the beautiful way this world is put into writing.