FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE
Damon Galgut's first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at home.
An exquisite early work by the Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut.
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.
Recenzijas
'A young writer of mature power.' * Mail on Sunday * 'Remarkable... astonishingly mature, subtle and understated.' * Sunday Express *
Papildus informācija
An exquisite early work by the twice Man Booker-shortlisted Damon Galgut, 'a novelist of great and growing power' (Rian Malan)
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.
