FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE
A breathtaking parable of death and deception from the Booker Prize-winning author.
Damon Galgut's 'lost' novel, written in 1995 but unpublished outside South Africa for ten years.
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 in order to conceal the crime. But one of his first duties as the new minister is to bury a body that has just been discovered in suspicious circumstances. As the corpse is laid to rest the manhunt begins...
In The Quarry, Galgut's tender prose combines with the power of myth to create a devastating drama, alive with tension.
Recenzijas
I liked this novel a lot. It has all the vigour and raw honesty of The Good Doctor. -- Doris Lessing Damon Galgut is a writer of immense clarity and control. -- Patrick Ness * Daily Telegraph * The Quarry proves that he has the talent to grow into one of South Africa's great literary voices, alongside its Nobel laureates, Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee. * Economist *
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A breathtaking parable of death and deception from the twice Booker-shortlisted author
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. In 2021 The Promise won the Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town.
