Damon Galgut - Böcker

Det börjar med en begravning. Året är 1986 och apartheidregimen går mot sitt slut. Familjen Swart dras isär efter mammans död, och de efterlevande återser varandra bara när nya begravningar för dem samman. Det enda som består är familjegården och ...

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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story. 'A moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth Day THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER On a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The ...

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Det börjar med en begravning. Året är 1986 och apartheidregimen går mot sitt slut. Familjen Swart dras isär efter mammans död, och de efterlevande återser varandra bara när nya begravningar för dem samman. Det enda som består är familjegården och ...

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Det börjar med en begravning. Året är 1986 och apartheidregimen går mot sitt slut. Familjen Swart dras isär efter mammans död, och de efterlevande återser varandra bara när nya begravningar för dem samman. Det enda som består är familjegården och ...

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Det börjar med en begravning. Året är 1986 och apartheidregimen går mot sitt slut. Familjen Swart dras isär efter mammans död, och de efterlevande återser varandra bara när nya begravningar för dem samman. Det enda som består är familjegården och ...

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book A gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man Booker-...

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Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (Africa region)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 - ...

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way - including a handsome, enigmatic s...

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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story.'A moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth DayTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The youn...

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Give yourself up. Whatever you've done. They'll find you. In the end. A man with no name staggers down a lonely stretch of road that cuts through the simmering veld of rural South Africa. He is exhausted and hungry yet dives for the long grass whe...

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WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE & Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA 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 ...

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A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the liv...

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book A gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man Booker-...

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2015 Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize University of Johannesburg English Literary Award Nominated for the 2014 Folio Prize In 1...

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***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE*** Masterful new fiction from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut A taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the e...

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The first collection of extraordinary stories from one of the greatest writers of our time. With astonishing clarity, Booker Prize winner Galgut explores both the intimacies and violence of family life against the complex landscape of 1980s South ...

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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.

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A taut, intense tale of the dashed hopes of the post-apartheid era and the small betrayals that doom a friendship, The Good Doctor is an extraordinary parable of the corruption of the flesh and spirit. 224 pp

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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 wa...

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';A lovely, lethal, disturbing novel' of the dashed hopes of post-apartheid South Africa and the small betrayals that doom a friendship (The Guardian). An extraordinary parable of the corruption of the flesh and spirit, The Good Doctor has inspire...

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From the Man Booker Prizewinning author of Promise: ';[A] spare, intense story of rural South Africa... His clear, elemental prose is never generic' (Booklist). Damon Galgut established himself as a writer of international caliber with the publica...

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISESHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the first free elections, Patrick has returned to the country he def...

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In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. T...

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Brought to you by Penguin. ** WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 **This audiobook includes bonus content of Damon Galgut in conversation with Ted Hodgkinson, Head of Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre. There is nothing unusual or rema...

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The first collection of extraordinary stories from one of the greatest writers of our time. With astonishing clarity, Booker Prize winner Galgut explores both the intimacies and violence of family life against the complex landscape of 1980s South ...

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Give yourself up. Whatever you've done. They'll find you. In the end.A man with no name staggers down a lonely stretch of road that cuts through the simmering veld of rural South Africa. He is exhausted and hungry yet dives for the long grass when...

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Previously published: London: Atlantic, 2010.

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This "beautifully written and utterly compelling" novel by the acclaimed South African author traces E. M. Forester's journey of self-discovery ( The Times , London). The year is 1912, and the SS Birmingham is approaching India. On board...

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEShortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionShortlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 University of Johannesburg English Litera...

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