The Impostor

Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE

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Damon Galgut

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEShortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book When Adam moves into an abandoned house on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping torecover from the loss of his job and his home in the city. But when he meets Canning - ashadowy figure from his childhood - and Canning's enigmatic and beautiful wife, a sinister newchapter in his life begins. Canning has inherited a vast fortune and built for himself a giant follyin the veld, a magical place of fantasy and dreams that seduces Adam and transforms himabsolutely, violently - and perhaps forever. Damon Galgut's magnificent novel evokes a hot and cruel and claustrophobic world,in which sex and death are never far from the surface.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

August 18th, 2022

Author

Damon Galgut

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Edition

Main

Pages

256

Dimensions

132x200x22

ISBN-13

9781838958886

Product ID

35817892

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