<p>Scott Berry, Raoul Dean, and Joseph Hamilton, three teenage runaways and vandals sent to Bleda Reformatory, come face to face with violence when one of the three is murdered and the surviving two seek the killer</p>

A Sinless Season

Galgut, Damon

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

A powerful, taut and intense tale of a  friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and  disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa. When Laurence Waters arrives at his new  post at a deserted rural hospital, staff physician Frank Eloff is  instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not-young,  optimistic, and full of big ideas. The whole town is beset with new  arrivals and the return of old faces. Frank reestablishes a liaison with  a woman, one that will have unexpected consequences. A self-made  dictator from apartheid days is rumored to be active in cross-border  smuggling, and a group of soldiers has moved in to track him, led by a  man from Frank's own dark past. Laurence sees only possibilities-but in a  world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his  ill-starred idealism cannot last.

Good Doctor

Contemporary

Grove Pr

The Impostor

ATLANTIC BOOKS *

Laurence Walters arrives at his rural hospital posting full of optimism. Frank, the disgruntled deputy, is forced to share his room with the new arrival but is determined to stay out of Laurence's ambitious schemes. When the dilapidated hospital is looted, the two men find themselves uneasy allies in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present.

The Good Doctor

The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs

SCRIBNERS

The Quarry

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 is to bury a body that has just been found close to a disused quarry...Although there is evidence linking others to the crime, the head of the local police, the Captain, knows the new minister is guilty. The Captain decides to bide his time--watching, listening, slowly circling his prey. With the town's church ablaze, the Captain is compelled to pursue the murderer across the veld, as his exhausted quarry struggles to make good his escape.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Isis Large Print Books

Damon Galgut stepped prominently onto the international stage with the publication of The Good Doctor. He has been compared to J.M. Coetzee, Graham Greene, and Joseph Conrad, but his voice is truly his own. The Quarry, written ten years ago but never before published outside South Africa, is a stark, intense, and crystalline novel in which human nature is set against the desolate backdrop of rural South Africa.On a lonely stretch of road a man picks up a hitchhiker. The driver is a minister on his way to a new congregation in an isolated village and the passenger is a nameless fugitive from justice. When the minister realizes this, and confronts his passenger as they are overlooking an empty quarry, the fugitive kills him and assumes his vestments and identity, only todiscover that one of his first duties as the new minister is to bury the body of his victim. Despite hints that two local petty criminals may be responsible, the local police chief is watching the new minister, and as the two play a tense game of cat and mouse,culminating in a desperate pursuit across the veldt, Damon Galgut gives us a spare, devastating combat for man’s most prized attribute: freedom.

Literary

MCCLELLAND STEWART

<p>In this gorgeously written, compellingly eerie new novel, Damon Galut offers a visceral portrait of South Africa at the crossroads of change. Young, idealistic Dr. Laurence Waters arrives at his new post in a rural hospital in South Africa only to find a dusty postcard of the past. He requested the assignment with hopes that he might make a difference in the desolate outpost, but the hospital is running on fumes: Any serious ailment is exported to larger city facilities, there is barely enough funding for staff, and the facility is too far off the beaten path to be affected by change. Laurence shares a room with the head doctor, Frank Eloff, a burned-out, disaffected hulk of a man who is both resentful of his young roommate's optimism and moved by his awkward charm. Laurence determinedly forms a friendship with his elder colleague, against all of Frank's natural instincts. But Laurence's eager desire to affect change and his firm belief in his moral duty as a doctor are at direct odds with the changing regime and the violence that prevails outside the hospital; and although Frank is temporarily buoyed by his young charge's enthusiasm, the hopes of both men come crashing down, as the harsh reality of their surroundings quashes their falsely idyllic dreams. Inviting comparisons to the work of Graham Greene and J. M. Coetzee, Galut's novel vividly captures the voice of a stranger in a strange land -- an outsider fleeing his own life who struggles to understand his adopted cultural surroundings and, in so doing, succeeds only in wreaking disaster.</p>

Damon Galgut stepped prominently onto the international stage with the publication of The Good Doctor He has been compared to J.M. Coetzee, Graham Greene, and Joseph Conrad, but his voice is truly his own. .The Quarry written ten years ago but never before published outside South Africa, is a stark, intense, and crystalline novel in which human nature is set against the desolate backdrop of rural South Africa.On a lonely stretch of road a man picks up a hitchhiker. The driver is a minister on his way to a new congregation in an isolated village and the passenger is a nameless fugitive from justice. When the minister realizes this, and confronts his passenger as they are overlooking an empty quarry, the fugitive kills him and assumes his vestments and identity, only to discover that one of his first duties as the new minister is to bury the body of his victim. Despite hints that two local petty criminals may be responsible, the local police chief is watching the new minister, and as the two play a tense game of cat and mouse,culminating in a desperate pursuit across the veldt, Damon Galgut gives us a spare, devastating combat for man’s most prized attribute: freedom.,From the Hardcover edition.

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A Sinless Season

Good Doctor

The Impostor

The Good Doctor

The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs

The Quarry

The Quarry

The Good Doctor

The Good Doctor

The Quarry