Beneath Damon’s physical anxieties churns a search for identity and a desire to shed ‘all the ballast of familiar life.’

-The New Yorker

In this Booker Prize-shortlisted novel from acclaimed South African writer Damon Galgut, a young loner travels across eastern Africa, Switzerland, Greece, and India. Unsure what he’s after, and reluctant to return home, he follows the paths of travelers he meets along the way. Each new encounter during his journey leads him closer to confronting his own identity.

In a Strange Room is a brilliant, stylish novel of anger and compassion, longing and thwarted desire, and a hauntingly beautiful evocation of life on the road.

A taut, mesmerizing novel. -Adam Langer, The New York Times

A spare and careful narrative of the innate search for the unnamable, of a restless traveler with a growing sense of gravity.

-Los Angeles Times

A powerful, genius work. -The Rumpus