In a Strange Room
Author(s): Damon Galgut
A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels with little purpose, letting the chance encounters of the road dictate his path. But although he knows that he is drifting, he is unable to settle. It is as if, without these encounters, the person he is cannot exist. And yet each journey ends in disaster. A novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a Strange Room is an extraordinary evocation of one man's search for love, and a place to call home.
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Shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker prize
'Beautiful. Strikingly conceived and hauntingly written.' Jan Morris, Guardian
Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor and The Impostor. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award. The Impostor was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He lives in Cape Town.
General Fields
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- : Atlantic Books
- : Atlantic Books
- : 01 April 2011
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 August 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Damon Galgut
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 823.914
- : 192