Arctic Summer
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE 'A masterly piece of fiction. Delicate and detailed' Daily Mail 'It is a project to which Galgut, whose fiction has often covered the terrain of love, race and politics, seems perfectly suited as...
Good Doctor
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappo...
Beautiful Screaming of Pigs
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003 A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the first free elections, Patrick has returned to the country he d...
In a Strange Room
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way - including a handsome, enigmatic s...
Quarry
Give yourself up. Whatever you've done. They'll find you. In the end. A man with no name staggers down a lonely stretch of road that cuts through the simmering veld of rural South Africa. He is exhausted and hungry yet dives for the long grass whe...
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Small Circle of Beings
The first collection of extraordinary stories from one of the greatest writers of our time. With astonishing clarity, Booker Prize winner Galgut explores both the intimacies and violence of family life against the complex landscape of 1980s South ...
Löftet
Det börjar med en begravning. Året är 1986 och apartheidregimen går mot sitt slut. Familjen Swart dras isär efter mammans död, och de efterlevande återser varandra bara när nya begravningar för dem samman. Det enda som består är familjegården och de obesvarade frågorna kring ett löfte som aldrig infriats.Löftet är en drabbande familjekrönika om det moderna Sydafrika, en oförglömlig läsupplevelse som belönades med Booker-priset 2021.
I Ett Främmande Rum
Planlösa resor fångade med suggestiv stil ock kraft Dagens Nyheter"... roman med närmast perfekt komposition. / Niclas Hvals översättning ligger nära originalet men är ändå helt fri från störande anglicismer i meningsbyggnad eller ordval.I stället fångar han fint den mjuka, musikaliska rytm som präglar Galguts stil ... Borås Tidning"Upplevelsen är hypnotisk." Aftonbladet"I ett främmande rum" är en existentiell reseskildring, en autofiktiv bildningsroman. I den skildras tre längre resor - Grekland, Afrika, Indien - där den vilsne huvudpersonen ofta låter slumpen styra nästa steg. Han gör sällskap med andra okända resenärer, och medan världen och människorna passerar förbi blir hans egna konflikter och demoner gradvis allt tydligare. Denna stilistiskt fulländade roman nominerades till Booker-priset 2010 och innebar Damon Galguts stora internationella genombrott, nu kommer den för första gången på svenska.
The Promise
Discover the powerful prizewinning story of a family in crisis. On a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least their treatment of the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. Salome was to be given her own house, her own land...yet somehow, that vow is carefully ignored. As each decade passes, and the family assemble again, one question hovers over them. Can you ever escape the repercussions of a broken promise?
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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book A gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man Booker-...
