The Quarry, written ten years ago but never published outside of South Africa, is a stark, intense, and crystalline novel in which human nature betrays itself against the desolate backdrop of rural South Africa.[...]

Damon Galgut is one of South Africa s most exciting new literary voices. In "The Impostor, "his first novel since "The Good Doctor, "Galgut leads his readers into the developing heart of postapartheid South Africa, a landscape being reshaped by new waves of money and power. Adam Napier leaves Johann[...]

Damon Galgut's third novel, a fictionalized biography of English author E.M. Forster, focuses on Forster's many years in India and the process of writing his masterpiece, "A Passage to India." This compact, finely wrought novel also addresses Forster's unforgiving childhood in England and the homose[...]

When Adam moves into an abandoned house on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping to recover from the loss of his job and his home in the city. But when he meets Canning - a shadowy figure from his childhood - and Canning's enigmatic and beautiful wife, a sinister new chapter in his life begins.[...]

Fängslande berättelse om det nya Sydafrika

När Adam Napier flyttar in i det nedgångna huset i den lilla landsortsstadens dammiga utkanter är tanken att han ska få ordning på sitt liv. Han har just förlorat jobb och hem i Johannesburg, och ser fram emot en ny start. I huset, som h[...]

E. M. Forsters färd till Indien

1912 reser den brittiske författaren E.M. Forster till Indien för att utforska livet och påbörja romanen En färd till Indien. Damon Galguts biografiska roman om hans liv är en gripande skildring om att finna sig själv och sin sexuella identitet i ett hi[...]