"What Hope Have You! is a story of three families in South Africa, one white, one black and one of mixed race. The story extends over four generations and is about a society rooted in colonialism and ruled by apartheid. It is told, in part, by Kate, great-granddaughter of a Jewish couple who leave their home in Eastern Europe in the 1870s because of racial intolerance and emigrate to South Africa where diamonds have recently been discovered."
