<div>From the Man Booker Prize&ndash;winner of The Promise: &ldquo;This tale of ill-fated journeys through Greece, Africa and India shows&rdquo; the author of The Quarry &ldquo;at a superb new high&rdquo; (The Guardian). In this newest novel from South African writer Damon Galgut, a young loner travels across eastern Africa, Europe, and India. Unsure what he&rsquo;s after, and reluctant to return home, he follows the paths of travelers he meets along the way. Each new encounter&mdash;with an enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers, and a woman on the verge&mdash;leads him closer to confronting his own identity. Traversing the quiet of wilderness and the frenzy of border crossings, every new direction is tinged with surmounting mourning, as he is propelled toward a tragic conclusion. Shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, In a Strange Room is a hauntingly beautiful evocation of life on the road. It was first published in the Paris Review in three parts&mdash;&ldquo;The Follower,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Lover,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Guardian&rdquo;&mdash;one of which was selected for a National Magazine Award and another for the O. Henry Prize.</div>

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In a Strange Room

<div>This &ldquo;beautifully written and utterly compelling&rdquo; novel by the acclaimed South African author traces E. M. Forester&rsquo;s journey of self-discovery (The Times, London). The year is 1912, and the SS Birmingham is approaching India. On board is Edward Morgan Forster, a reserved man taunted by writer&rsquo;s block, attempting to come to terms with his art and his homosexuality. During his travels, the novelist confronts his fraught childhood and falls in unrequited love with his closest friend. He also finds himself surprisingly freed to explore his &ldquo;minorite&rdquo; desires as secretary to a most unusual Maharajah. Slowly, the strands of a story begin to gather in Forster&rsquo;s mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. But it will be another twelve years and a second stay in India before the publication of his finest work, A Passage to India. Shifting across the landscapes of India, Egypt, and England, Forster&rsquo;s life is informed by his relationships&mdash;from the Egyptian tram conductor Mohammed el-Adl, to the Greek poet and literary titan C. P. Cavafy. Damon Galgut&rsquo;s reimagining of Forster&rsquo;s life is a clear and sympathetic psychological probing of one of Britain&rsquo;s finest novelists. &ldquo;Galgut inhabits [Forster] with such sympathetic completeness, and in prose of such modest excellence that he starts to breathe on the page.&rdquo; &mdash;Financial Times</div>

Arctic Summer

<div>From the Man Booker Prize&ndash;winning author of Promise: &ldquo;[A] spare, intense story of rural South Africa . . . His clear, elemental prose is never generic&rdquo; (Booklist). Damon Galgut established himself as a writer of international caliber with the publication of The Good Doctor, which was sold in sixteen countries and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the African region. The Quarry is another stark, intense, and crystalline novel in which human nature betrays itself against the desolate backdrop of rural South Africa. On a lonely stretch of road a man picks up a hitchhiker. The driver is a minister on his way to a new rural congregation; the passenger is a fugitive. When the minister realizes this, the fugitive kills him. He assumes his vestments and identity, only to discover that one of his first duties as the new minister is to preside over his victim&rsquo;s funeral. As the fugitive and the local police chief play a tense game of cat and mouse, culminating in a pursuit across the desolate veldt, Damon Galgut gives us a spare, devastating combat for man&rsquo;s most prized attribute: freedom. &ldquo;The Quarry has the same dry, feral quality as Damon Galgut&rsquo;s best-known novel, The Good Doctor. . . . The issues of guilt, injustice and redemption give the novel a biblical feel. The writing shines in its peripheral vision, in the backdrops and corners of its scenes.&rdquo; &mdash;Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times</div>

The Quarry

<div>&ldquo;A lovely, lethal, disturbing novel&rdquo; of the dashed hopes of post-apartheid South Africa and the small betrayals that doom a friendship (The Guardian). An extraordinary parable of the corruption of the flesh and spirit, The Good Doctor has inspired enthusiastic interest around the world and has assured Damon Galgut&rsquo;s place as a major international talent. 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&mdash;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 Frank&rsquo;s own dark past. Laurence sees only possibilities&mdash;but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last. &ldquo;Galgut&rsquo;s prose, its gentle rhythms and straightforward sentences edging toward revelation, is utterly seductive and suspenseful . . . Galgut is a master of psychological tension. . . . Tragic and brilliant.&rdquo; &mdash;The Globe and Mail (Toronto)</div>

The Good Doctor

<div>An &ldquo;unsettling and engaging&rdquo; novel about contemporary South Africa, from the Man Booker Prize&ndash;winning author of The Promise (The Telegraph). Adam Napier leaves Johannesburg looking for a fresh start. Jobless and directionless, but with a head full of literary ambitions, he moves into his brother&rsquo;s dilapidated house on the edge of a backwater town. One day he encounters Canning, a man who claims Adam saved his life in their school days. Adam does not remember him at all. But he plays along and, for a time, enjoys all that Canning has: a vast fortune and game preserve inherited from his father, and a beautiful, mysterious younger wife to whom Adam is compulsively, dangerously drawn. &ldquo;An antipastoral, post-apartheid noir&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly) by &ldquo;a worthy heir to Gordimer and Coetzee&rdquo;, The Imposter evokes a glittering world of the moneyed old guard, newly empowered black Africans, and the betrayal and obsessions hiding in the shadows of the new South African dream (The Guardian, UK).</div>

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