Damon Galgut
Birth date: January 01, 1963
Damon Galgut's Books
This is an extraordinarily beautiful book. The first two sections are quiet and luminous, then Galgut kicks it in to high gear for the searing drama of the third. The book presents itself as a novel but is more like interconnected novellas; the third story in particular could stand on its own. I fel...
Not sure how this ended up on my to be read list. I'm not usually a reader of fiction and Africa has never really captured by imagination. However, this ended up at the top of my never-ending TBR and I decided to give it a shot.I am glad I did. Set just after apartheid has ended, it's the tale of a ...
I found this unbearably bleak..
I found this unbearably bleak..
Rather than describing the clear, unquestionable picture seen by an invisible spectator - following the characters, seeing everything first hand and in the moment - Galgut lets us look into his brain and watch his hazy, indefinite, disconnected memories - an effect achieved in part through alternate...
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