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Description for In a Strange Room
paperback. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. Lightly toned, remains very good
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848873247
SKU
KSG0039466
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Damon Galgut
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.
Reviews for In a Strange Room
'Beautiful. Strikingly conceived and hauntingly written.' Jan Morris, Guardian