In a Strange Room - Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010'One of the most beautiful and unsettling books I've ever read. I can't remember a more troubling and intense study of rootlessness and loneliness; Galgut is a writer of great, almost frightening, depth.' Tash Aw

About the author

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 and The Good Doctor. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Damon Galgut lives in Cape Town.

Summary

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010'One of the most beautiful and unsettling books I've ever read. I can't remember a more troubling and intense study of rootlessness and loneliness; Galgut is a writer of great, almost frightening, depth.' Tash Aw

Foreword

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010

'One of the most beautiful and unsettling books I've ever read. I can't remember a more troubling and intense study of rootlessness and loneliness; Galgut is a writer of great, almost frightening, depth.' Tash Aw

Product details

• Authors: Damon Galgut
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781838958848
• ISBN: 978-1-83895-884-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 170 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Urban, FICTION / Romance / Holiday, Travel writing, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Southern Africa, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Fiction: general and literary, Holidays and celebrations