The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs (revised edition 2005)
Author(s): Damon Galgut
A year ago Patrick Winter, a young South African, was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the country's first free elections, Patrick is back. Back in the country he once defended and the place where he fell in love for the first and only time. With the country poised to change forever, Patrick is forced to revisit the past and climb the wall behind which he has sealed himself for so long. First published 1991; this revised edition 2005.
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"An opportunity for Damon Galgut's legion of fans to discover the breakthrough novel by 'a novelist of great and growing power' (Rian Malan) 'Damon Galgut is a writer of immense clarity and control. His prose feels as if it's been fired through a crucible, burning away all the comfortable excess until only a hard, concentrated purity remains... scarily precise writing.' Patrick Ness, Daily Telegraph on The Quarry"
DAMON GALGUT was born in Pretoria in 1963 and now lives in Cape Town. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Quarry and The Good Doctor.
General Fields
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- : Atlantic Books
- : Atlantic Books
- : 12 April 2006
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Damon Galgut
- : Paperback
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- : 192