In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
Damon Galgut's masterful Man Booker-shortlisted novel of longing and thwarted desire following one man on three very different journeys
BeautifulStrikingly conceived and hauntingly written. -- Jan Morris * Guardian *
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 *
Galgut, ever the wanderer, always the seeker, is here at his most deliberate; as intent on finding meaning as on asking questions. -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
A powerful three-part meditation on the relationship between travel, love and an off-kilter self. * Financial Times *
Haunting... Devastating... This is a wise and brilliant book. * TLS *
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
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 *
Galgut, ever the wanderer, always the seeker, is here at his most deliberate; as intent on finding meaning as on asking questions. -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
A powerful three-part meditation on the relationship between travel, love and an off-kilter self. * Financial Times *
Haunting... Devastating... This is a wise and brilliant book. * TLS *
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
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, The Good Doctor, The Impostor and In A Strange Room. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award, The Impostor was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2021 The Promise won the Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781782396291 |
| ISBN 10 | 1782396292 |
| Title | In a Strange Room |
| Author | Damon Galgut |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2015-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for The Man Booker Prize 2010 (UK) |
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