In a Strange Room Damon Galgut

Name: In a Strange Room By Damon Galgut
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Summary

Damon Galgut's masterful Man Booker-shortlisted novel of longing and thwarted desire following one man on three very different journeys

In a Strange Room Summary

In a Strange Room: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize by Damon Galgut

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2010 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2010 ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE ONDAATJE PRIZE

FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE

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.

In a Strange Room Reviews

Beautiful. Strikingly 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

About Damon Galgut

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. He lives in Cape Town.

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GOR007806847

ISBN 13

9781782396291

ISBN 10

1782396292

Title

In a Strange Room: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize by Damon Galgut

Author

Damon Galgut

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Atlantic Books

Year published

20150507

Number of pages

192

Prizes

Short-listed for The Man Booker Prize 2010 (UK)

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