Damon Galgut

• Apr-2021
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Winner of the Booker Prize: "This tour-de-force unleashes a searing portrait of a damaged family and a troubled country in need of healing." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the ...

• Sep-2014
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Damon Galgut's third novel, a fictionalized biography of English author E.M. Forster, focuses on Forster's many years in India and the process of writing his masterpiece, A Passage to India. This compact, finely wrought novel also addresses Forster...

• Oct-2010
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From the Man Booker Prize -- winner of The Promise: "This tale of ill-fated journeys through Greece, Africa and India shows" the author of The Quarry "at a superb new high" (The Guardian).   In this newest novel from South African wr...

• Jun-2008
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An "unsettling and engaging" novel about contemporary South Africa, from the Man Booker Prize -- winning author of The Promise (The Telegraph).   Adam Napier leaves Johannesburg looking for a fresh start. Jobless and direction...

• Sep-2004
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From the Man Booker Prize -- winning author of Promise: "[A] spare, intense story of rural South Africa . . . His clear, elemental prose is never generic" (Booklist).   Damon Galgut established himself as a writer of i...

• Jan-2003
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"A lovely, lethal, disturbing novel" of the dashed hopes of post-apartheid South Africa and the small betrayals that doom a friendship (The Guardian).   An extraordinary parable of the corruption of the flesh and spirit, The Good Doctor...

• Sep-1992
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Featuring a young white South African who suffers a nervous breakdown whilst on military service, this story is set against the hinterland of the Namibian desert. Its subject is the meeting of politics and self. Damon Galgut is the author of "A Sinle...

• Jul-1990
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By the author of "A Sinless Season", this collection of stories of the macabre takes its title from one of its novellas which depicts the falling apart of a marriage. The narrator sees her life slipping out of control and as she turns to another man ...

• Apr-1985
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Scott Berry, Raoul Dean, and Joseph Hamilton, three teenage runaways and vandals sent to Bleda Reformatory, come face to face with violence when one of the three is murdered and the surviving two seek the killer...