num_pages: 217
description: Caleb Looper, a reporter exiled from South Africa, begins an affair with Biddy Hogan, a member of an African liberation group, while secretly engaged to Rose, daughter of the owner of the Hottentot Club.
language: English
title: The Hottentot Room
titlecomplete: The Hottentot Room
characters: Caleb Looper
ratings_count: 8
places: London, England, South Africa
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux