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Small Circle of Beings

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Informationen zum Autor DAMON GALGUT is the author of nine novels. He won the Booker Prize 2021 for The Promise , having been shortlisted for the prize twice before ( The Good Doctor and In A Strange Room ). He lives and works in Cape Town. Klappentext The first collection of extraordinary stories from one of the greatest writers of our time. With astonishing clarity, Booker Prize winner Galgut explores both the intimacies and violence of family life against the complex landscape of 1980s South Africa. From a mother who experiences a devastating unmooring after her child falls gravely ill, to a son retracing his late father's brief yet passionate affair, the stories ripple out from one another, tenderly exposing those bonds we cannot escape. PRAISE FOR DAMON GALGUT:'Galgut seems to deliver effortlessly...there's nothing he can't do' Times'Damon Galgut is very nearly without peer...an essential writer' Garth Greenwell'Terrifically agile and consistently interesting...certainly up there with Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee' Guardian Zusammenfassung The first collection of extraordinary stories from one of the greatest writers of our time. With astonishing clarity, Booker Prize winner Galgut explores both the intimacies and violence of family life against the complex landscape of 1980s South Africa. From a mother who experiences a devastating unmooring after her child falls gravely ill, to a son retracing his late father's brief yet passionate affair, the stories ripple out from one another, tenderly exposing those bonds we cannot escape. PRAISE FOR DAMON GALGUT: 'Galgut seems to deliver effortlessly...there's nothing he can't do' Times 'Damon Galgut is very nearly without peer...an essential writer' Garth Greenwell 'Terrifically agile and consistently interesting...certainly up there with Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee' Guardian ...

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Authors Damon Galgut
Publisher Vintage UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 18.08.2022
 
EAN 9781529198164
ISBN 978-1-5291-9816-4
No. of pages 224
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Family life fiction, Republic of South Africa, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, FICTION / World Literature / Africa / Southern Africa, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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