On a lonely stretch of road a nameless man commits a murder. The victim is a religious minister on his way to take up a post in a nearby town. The murderer decides to steal the dead man's identity only to discover that one of his first duties as the new minister is to bury a body that has just been found out near the quarry...Captain Mong, the head of the local police takes a close interest in the minister's work, although there is evidence linking young petty criminals to the crime. Mong knows it is the new minister who is guilty. But he bides his time, watching, listening, slowly circling his prey. Building to a climax that is almost too much to bear with the town's church ablaze, the Captain is compelled to pursue the murderer across the veldt,while his exhausted quarry struggles to make good his escape.  In The Quarry, Galgut's tender prose combines with the power of myth to create a devastating drama, alive with tension.

The Quarry

Literature & Fiction

DAMON GALGUT

Literary

Penguin Books (SA) (Pty) Ltd

In a Strange Room: Three Journeys

ATLANTIC BOOKS *

Small Circle Of Beings

Penguin Random House South Africa

London. 19 cm. 205 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma inglés .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.

The Good Doctor

Contemporary

Penguin

Critically acclaimed novelist Damon Galgut has drawn international attention with this finalist for the Booker Prize for fiction. His first novel published in the United States, 'The Good Doctor' is a perceptive look at the tumultuous climate of post-apartheid South Afica. Embittered physician Frank Eloff grudgingly welcomes young doctor Laurence Waters to the remote, understaffed hospital in which he works. Soon thereafter, Laurence begins an outreach program for nearby villages, Frank resumes an affair with a local woman, and soldiers enter the town in search of a deposed dictator. As Frank reluctantly acknowledges his growing friendship with Laurence, a cataclysmic series of events threatens to wreck their lives.

The Good Doctor [Large Print]

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Damon Galgut's first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at home. The family - that small circle of beings where love should flourish - can be an arid and alienating territory where hatred and violence may ignite. The title novella is set in a house far out of town, at the end of a dust road that rises up into the mountains. The desperate bondage of family life is revealed to a mother as she sits at her son's bedside where he lies sick, perhaps dying. Galgut's understated prose unpicks the emotional paradoxes of family life with a surprising, surreal twist. In a world where some of the most intimate relationships are those between strangers, Small Circle of Beings describes how children must learn to pull away from their parents if they are to find their own way.

Small Circle of Beings: From the Booker prize-winning author of The Promise

Genre Fiction

Vintage

Arctic Summer

The Promise

The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living 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 the failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled.\nThe narrator's eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams; deliciously lethal in its observation. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title.

Chatto&Windus

Arctic Summer: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE

The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE

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