Damon Galgut

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In this literary tour de force, twice Booker shortlisted novelist Damon Galgut evokes the life and work of EM Forster, his travels to India, and the freedom and inspiration he found there. In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. It will be another twelve years, and a second time spent in India, before A Passage to India, EM Forster's great work of literature, is published. During these years, Morgan will come to a profound understanding of himself as a man, and of the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature, bringing these great insights to bear in his remarkable novel. At once an exploration of the life and times of one of Britain's finest novelists, his struggle to find a way of living and being, and a stunningly vivid evocation of the mysterious alchemy of the creative process, Arctic Summer is a literary masterpiece, by one of the finest writers of his generation.

WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE & Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA powerful, taut and intense tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa.When Laurence Waters arrives at his new post at a deserted rural hospital, staff physician Frank Eloff is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not-young, optimistic, and full of big ideas. The whole town is beset with new arrivals and the return of old faces. Frank reestablishes a liaison with a woman, one that will have unexpected consequences. A self-made dictator from apartheid days is rumored to be active in cross-border smuggling, and a group of soldiers has moved in to track him, led by a man from Franks own dark past. Laurence sees only possibilities-but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last.

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE Shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionShortlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 University of Johannesburg English Literary Award Nominated for the 2014 Folio PrizeIn 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. It will be another twelve years, and a second time spent in India, before A Passage to India, E. M. Forsters great work of literature, is published. During these years, Morgan will come to a profound understanding of himself as a man, and of the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature, bringing these great insights to bear in his remarkable novel.At once a fictional exploration of the life and times of one of Britains finest novelists, his struggle to find a way of living and being, and a stunningly vivid evocation of the mysterious alchemy of the creative process, Arctic Summer is a literary masterpiece, by one of the finest writers of his generation.

"The Impostor" is simply the finest work of fiction he has ever written: a gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah. 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 inherited a vast fortune and built for himself a giant folly in the veld, a magical place of fantasy and dreams that seduces Adam and transforms him absolutely, violently - and perhaps forever.Damon Galgut''s magnificent new novel evokes a hot and cruel and claustrophobic world, in which sex and death are never far from the surface. It is his most powerful and unforgettable novel yet.

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" is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man''s search for love, and a place to call home.

In a Strange Room. 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" is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man's search for love, and a place to call home.

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa'The Good Doctor will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa's transition... by a novelist of great and growing power.' -- Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South AfricaLaurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting full of optimism. Frank, the disgruntled deputy, is forced to share his room with the new arrival but is determined to stay out of Laurence's ambitious schemes. When the dilapidated hospital is looted, the two men find themselves uneasy allies in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present.'The Good Doctor will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa's transition... by a novelist of great and growing power.' - Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart

This collection offers a thorough presentation of the work of this important American avant-garde figure. The full AMERICAN HURRAH triptych, a 1960s classic heralded as the first theatrical expression of the anti-Vietnam War movement, is included along with smaller plays: THE SERPENT, a newfangled Adam and Eve story, and THE BAG LADY, spoken from the point of view of a homeless woman, and other significant works.

Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Africa region)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 childhooh - and Cannings enigmatic and beautiful wife, a sinister new chapter in his life begins. Canning has inherited a vast fortune and built for himself a giant folly in the veld, a magical place of fantasy and dreams that seduces Adam and transforms him absolutely, violently - and perhaps forever.Damon Galguts magnificent novel evokes a hot and cruel and claustrophobic world, in which sex and death are never far from the surface. It is his most powerful and unforgettable novel yet.

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 mans identity only to discover that one of his .rst duties as the new minister is to bury a body that has just been found close to the quarry The head of the local police, the Captain, takes a keen interest in the ministers work, although there is evidence linking young petty criminals to the crime. The Captain knows it is the new minister who is guilty. But he bides his time, watching, listening, slowly circling his prey. Building to a climax that is almost too much to bear, the Captain is compelled to pursue the murderer across the veld, while his exhausted quarry struggles to make good his escape. In The Quarry, Galgut brings the power of myth to his tender prose to create a devastating drama, alive with tension.

Two physicians in South Africa--Frank is aging, despairing; Laurence is young and idealistic--struggle to keep things going in a ludicrously underequipped hospital. The story is narrated by Frank, a classic "unreliable narrator," whose recounting of events reveals not only Laurence''s mistakes but, inadvertently, his own. THE GOOD DOCTOR was shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize.

Damon Galguts masterful novel of longing and thwarted desire following one man on three very different journeys.A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels with little purpose, letting the chance encounters of the road dictate his path. But although he knows that he is drifting, he is unable to settle. It is as if, without these encounters, the person he is cannot exist. And yet each journey ends in disaster.A novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a Strange Room is an extraordinary evocation of one mans search for love, and a place to call home.

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021**Discover the powerful prizewinning story of a family in crisis.'Astonishing' Colm ToibinThe Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least the failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life.After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled.The narrator's eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams; deliciously lethal in its observation. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title.In this story of a diminished family, sharp and tender emotional truths hit home.Confident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at its finest.'Gorgeous and pleasurable' Tessa Hadley'The most important book of the last ten years' Edmund White'Simply: you must read it' Claire Messud

Una de las voces esenciales de la literatura contemporánea. Una novela intensa y perturbadora sobre el desarraigo y el descubrimiento de la propia identidad.Un joven solitario recorre Grecia, África oriental y la India. Sin saber bien que busca y con pocas ganas de volver a su pais, Sudafrica, sigue la ruta de los viajeros que va conociendo: un chico enigmatico, un despreocupado grupo de mochileros y una mujer en horas bajas. En estos viajes sin un destino claro, en los que deja que el azar marque el camino, se ve adoptando distintos papeles el de seguidor, primero, y el de amante o cuidador mas tarde, y terminara entendiendo que uno no puede existir sin el encuentro, a menudo doloroso, con los demas.Damon Galgut transita entre la ficcion y el recuerdo en esta intensa e inusual novela sobre la alienacion y la complejidad de las relaciones humanas que explora la rabia y la compasion, la añoranza y el deseo. Inquietante y evocadora, En una habitacion ajena, finalista del premio Booker en 2010, es una de las grandes obras del aplaudido autor de La promesa, una voz esencial de la literatura anglosajona contemporanea.Aguda, bella, perturbadora. Pocas veces una lectura me ha emocionado tanto. Sarah Hall (The Times)Uno de los mejores escritores del mundo. Edmund WhiteUna maravilla. Una creacion asombrosa y una escritura evocadora e inquietante. Jan Morris (The Guardian)Soberbio. Con este libro Galgut ha abierto un camino nuevo y ha elevado su escritura a otro nivel. Una obra realmente sorprendente. William Skidelsky (The Observer)Una potente meditacion sobre la relacion entre el viaje, el amor y un yo erratico. Financial TimesEstas bellas paginas se erigen como una poderosa exploracion de la soledad y la conexion, del deseo de pertenecer y la incapacidad de lograrlo. Con una prosa envolvente, presenta el viaje como un recorrido marcado por la incertidumbre y la perdida. Es un libro que nos enfrenta a la idea de que la vida es un ir y venir, donde las relaciones son tan fugaces como los paisajes que dejamos atras y donde la verdadera paz solo reside en la memoria. Angeles Lopez (La Razon)Un libro bellisimo, perturbador, que conmueve como un paisaje africano y bajo el que se esconde tanta dureza como en aquel. Isabel Gomez Melenchon (La Vanguardia)Con prosa diafana, situaciones simbolicas y encanto algo lugubre, Galgut confirma su maestria narrativa aupando al relato de viaje a una dimension distinta. Gabi Martinez (El Pais)

La impactante historia de una familia en crisis ganadora del Premio Booker 2021.Los Swart son una familia blanca que vive desde hace generaciones en una granja en las afueras de Pretoria, en Sudáfrica. Tras la muerte de la madre, se reunen todos para el funeral en la casa familiar. Amor y Anton, dos de sus hijos, rechazan lo que la familia representa y no olvidan la promesa que su padre hizo a su madre poco antes de morir: que Salome, la mujer negra que lleva trabajando toda la vida para ellos y que la cuido en sus ultimos dias, podria quedarse con la pequeña casa en la que siempre ha vivido. Pero el tiempo va pasando y la promesa no se cumple.La narracion sigue los pasos de los Swart a lo largo de mas de tres decadas; a traves de la minuciosa exploracion de los miembros de la familia y sus conflictos, Galgut nos habla tambien de los cambios politicos y sociales del pais tras el fin de la segregacion racial.La promesa, una originalisima y conmovedora novela ganadora del premio Booker 2021, esta considerada como una de las grandes obras literarias en ingles de la ultima decada.Uno de los mejores escritores del mundo () El libro mas importante de la ultima decada. Edmund WhiteEs tierna y brutal, y Amor, su enigmatica heroina, es el personaje mas fascinante de la narrativa reciente. La recordare y recordare este libro maravilloso y abrumador durante mucho tiempo. Peter CameronLa historia posee una profundidad asombrosa, como si los personajes hubiesen sido imaginados a lo largo del tiempo, con paciencia y tierno cuidado.Colm ToibinLa novela adquiere una dimension estetica y dramatica de muy alto nivel. J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip (El Correo)La promesa celebra la capacidad de la novela para vengarse de la realidad mas oscura mirandola desde angulos que desarticulan todo conato de uniformidad o simplicidad. Antonio Lozano (Cultura/s - La Vanguardia)La promesa es una gran, hermosa y contundente novela contemporanea, y ademas esconde un ejercicio de virtuosismo. Ricardo Menendez Salmon (La Nueva España)Galgut escribe verdadera literatura porque es su dominio del lenguaje el que tras-ciende y convierte en verdadera la historia funesta que aqui se cuenta. Javier Aparicio Maydeu (El Pais)La promesa aborda el espinoso asunto de la familia, sus arenas movedizas, con una crudeza y complejidad que se agradece. Fermin Herrero (El Cuaderno)La genialidad del libro esta en la voz del narrador, que se desliza con fluidez por los personajes en una polifonia preñada de de-cadencia y bancarrota moral que la satira y un humor desencantado hacen llevaderas. Marta Rebon (La Lectura / El Mundo)Damon Galgut nos presenta una lucida radiografia social de Sudafrica, con multiples connotaciones y narrada de una manera apabullante que atrapa desde la primera pagina. Victoriano Suarez Alamo (Canarias 7)Resulta agil, ligera, muy visual, con un lenguaje adecuado a cada momento y personaje, esplendido en el efectismo que permite la inmersion en cada uno de ellos. Aranzazu Miro (El Imparcial)Una obra maestra: un argumento solido, un perfecto dominio de la estructura y una prosa potente, profunda y a la vez cuidada y muy hermosa. Rosa Marti (Vanitatis - El Confidencial)Una de las novelas mas poderosas que se hayan publicado...

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