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Damon GALGUT

Penguin Books, 1984

Sinless yet haunting
A merciless, savagely beautiful 'school days' tale whose psychosexual scope belies the fact its (white South African) author was in his teens when it was written. I've adored this novel since I stumbled upon it in the '80s, and grieve that it has fallen into obscurity. Highly recommended (if you can track it down).

The Impostor: A Novel
Damon Galgut

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2009

Damon Galgut is one of South Africa?s most exciting new literary voices. In The Impostor, his first novel since The Good Doctor, Galgut leads his readers into the developing heart of postapartheid South Africa, a landscape being reshaped by new waves of money and power. Adam Napier leaves Johannesburg looking for a fresh start. Jobless and directionless, but with a head full of literary ambitions, he moves into his brother?s dilapidated ...

The Quarry
Damon Galgut

Emblem Editions, 2006

Damon Galgut stepped prominently onto the international stage with the publication of The Good Doctor. He has been compared to J.M. Coetzee, Graham Greene, and Joseph Conrad, but his voice is truly his own. The Quarry, written ten years ago but never before published outside South Africa, is a stark, intense, and crystalline novel in which human nature is set against the desolate backdrop of rural South Africa. On a lonely stretch of road a ...

The Impostor
Damon Galgut

Atlantic Books, 2009

Now available in paperback, "The Impostor" is the first new novel from Damon Galgut since the Man-Booker-shortlisted "The Good Doctor". When Adam moves into an abandoned house on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping to recover from the loss of his job and his home in the city. But when he meets Canning - a shadowy figure from his childhood - and Canning's enigmatic and beautiful wife, a sinister new chapter in his life begins. Canning has ...

The Quarry
Damon Galgut

Atlantic, 2004

THE BEAUTIFUL SCREAMING OF PIGS

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DAMON GALGUT

ATLANTIC BOOKS, 2006

An impressive novel
In this story by Mr Galgut, the narrator, Patrick Winter, is a young man whose father, Howard, a millionaire, divorced his mother Ellen some time ago. She on her part is having an affair with a native South African called Godfrey, seventeen years her junior. Patrick and his mother undertake a journey to Windhoek where Godfrey works for the SWAPO and they plan to travel from there to Namibia where ...

The Good Doctor [Large Print]
Damon Galgut

Recorded Books, 2005

Critically acclaimed novelist Damon Galgut has drawn international attention with this finalist for the Booker Prize for fiction. His first novel published in the United States, 'The Good Doctor' is a perceptive look at the tumultuous climate of post-apartheid South Afica. Embittered physician Frank Eloff grudgingly welcomes young doctor Laurence Waters to the remote, understaffed hospital in which he works. Soon thereafter, Laurence begins an ...

THE GOOD DOCTOR

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DAMON GALGUT

ISIS LARGE PRINT BOOKS, 2005

Excellent : should have snazzed last year's Booker
Damon Galgut's "The Good Doctor (GD)" is arguably the best among last year's Booker nominees, though sadly its classy but staid and measured qualities may not be what critics look for in prize winners. With GD, those acquainted with the works of South African novelists like Nadine Gordimer and J M Coetzee will find themselves in familiar territory. South Africa in transition is a perspective ...

The Quarry

2 reviews
Damon Galgut

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2004

The hearts and minds of South Africans haven't changed
In this stunning novel, Mr Galgut tells the story of a fugitive from justice hitchhiking in the desolate backdrop of South Africa and who is picked up by a driver, a minister on his way to a remote parish. When the minister discovers that the hitchhiker is a fugitive and confronts him in a disused quarry, the response is lethal. This novel is a masterpiece featuring a story and characters ...

The Quarry
Damon Galgut

Atlantic Books, 2004

On a lonely stretch of road a nameless man commits a murder. The victim is a religious minister on his way to take up a post in a nearby town. The murderer decides to steal the dead man's identity only to discover that one of his first duties as the new minister is to bury a body that has just been found out near the quarry...Captain Mong, the head of the local police takes a close interest in the minister's work, although there is evidence ...

The Quarry
Damon Galgut

Atlantic Books, 2005

The Quarry
Damon Galgut

McClelland & Stewart, 2005

Damon Galgut stepped prominently onto the international stage with the publication of The Good Doctor. He has been compared to J.M. Coetzee, Graham Greene, and Joseph Conrad, but his voice is truly his own. The Quarry, written ten years ago but never before published outside South Africa, is a stark, intense, and crystalline novel in which human nature is set against the desolate backdrop of rural South Africa. On a lonely stretch of road a ...

Small Circle of Beings

1 review
Damon Galgut

Atlantic Books, 2005

A fine collection of five short stories
Small Circle of Beings shows the members of the Roper family in a house far out of town, at the end of a dust road which rises up into the mountains. Their son David is sick with jaundice, perhaps even dying, and his illness reveals to his mother the desperate bondage of family ties. The author's prose captures the emotional contradictions of family life and shows how a son must learn to pull ...

A Sinless Season

1 review
Damon Galgut

Constable and Company Ltd, 1989

A powerful first novel
In his first novel published in 1982, Mr Galgut tells the tragic tale of three boys of about 16 who are sent to Bleda Reformatory in South Africa, a correctional facility for under-age delinquents, the principal of which is Mr Eugene Hall. There is Joseph Hamilton, a rather plump boy of unsubtle features and of nervous composure. Scott Berry, a shy brown-eyed boy. Raoul Dean, slim and ...

Das Sündenopfer
Damon Galgut

Goldmann Wilhelm GmbH, 2007

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