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Damon Galgut
Discover the Booker Prize-shortlisted literary masterpiece of a family in crisis.
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‘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…
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Winner 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…
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The Quarry, written ten years ago but never published outside of South Africa, is a stark, intense, and crystalline novel in which human nature betrays itself against the desolate backdrop…
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A gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man Booker-shortlisted author.
Damon Galgut’s masterful Man Booker-shortlisted novel of longing and thwarted desire following one man on three very different journeys.
An exquisite early work by Damon Galgut, ‘a novelist of great and growing power’ (Rian Malan)
In this literary tour de force, twice Booker shortlisted novelist Damon Galgut evokes the life and work of E. M. Forster, his travels to India, and the freedom and inspiration…
Discover the Booker Prize-shortlisted literary masterpiece of a family in crisis. ‘Astonishing’ Colm Toibin The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a…
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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…
Previously published: London: Atlantic, 2010.
A masterpiece of a family in crisis from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut ‘Emotionally powerful and thrilling,’ Gabriel Byrne ‘A literary masterpiece’ Sarah Hall The Promise charts the crash and…
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WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE
On her deathbed, Rachel Swart makes a promise to Salome, the family’s Black maid. This promise will divide…
An intense and sizzling novel seething with betrayal and political upheaval from the twice Man Booker- shortlisted author.
An intense and sizzling novel seething with betrayal and political upheaval from the Booker Prize-winning author.
The Impostor is the first new novel from Damon Galgut since the Man-Booker-shortlisted The Good Doctor. ‘Damon Galgut’s book is the best I have read to come out of the…
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Diane Oliver
Haunting tales of life in the racially divided 1960s American South by a lost star of Black literature, introduced by Tayari Jones.
