SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2010 MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2010 ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE ONDAATJE PRIZE
A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way – including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a woman on the edge – he is the Follower, the Lover and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man’s best intentions, each journey ends in disaster. Together, these three journeys will change his whole life.
A novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a Strange Room First Edition is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man’s search for love, and a place to call home.
Editorial Reviews
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Superb… With this new book Galgut has struck out in a new direction and taken his writing to a whole other level. It is a quite astonishing work. –William Skidelsky, Observer
Acute, beautiful, unsettling. I have rarely felt so moved whilst reading. –Sarah Hall, The Times
‘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
Acute, beautiful, unsettling. I have rarely felt so moved whilst reading. –Sarah Hall, The Times
‘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
From the Publisher
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010
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.
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