In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
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 man's search for love, and a place to call home.
'BeautifulStrikingly conceived and hauntingly written.' Jan Morris, Guardian
Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963, and now lives in Cape Town. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor, The Impostor, and In A Strange Room. His novels have twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize (The Good Doctor; In A Strange Room), and The Impostor was shortlisted for the Dublin/IMPAC Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, which Galgut also won with The Good Doctor.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781848873247 |
| ISBN 10 | 1848873247 |
| Title | In a Strange Room |
| Author | Damon Galgut |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2011-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for The Man Booker Prize 2010 (UK) |
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