In a Strange Room: Three Journeys
by:
Damon Galgut (author)
For readers of Ian McEwan, Paul Auster, and J.M. Coetzee, In a Strange Room is the intricate, psychologically intense, and deeply personal book of fiction from the internationally acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Good Doctor.A young man named Damon takes three journeys,...
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For readers of Ian McEwan, Paul Auster, and J.M. Coetzee, In a Strange Room is the intricate, psychologically intense, and deeply personal book of fiction from the internationally acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Good Doctor.A young man named Damon takes three journeys, through Greece, India, and Africa. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way — including a handsome enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers, and a woman on the edge — he is the Follower, the Lover, and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man's best intentions, each journey ends in disaster. Together, these three journeys will change his whole life.A book of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a Strange Room is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man's search for love and a place to call home.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780771035968 (0771035969)
Publish date: August 3rd 2010
Publisher: Emblem Editions
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Travel,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
India,
Modern,
Short Stories
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...
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...
I finished In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut. Wow. The book centers on a fictional character, yet Galgut refers to him as both 'he' and 'I' at various points in the text, making it feel like it's really not fiction at all, but rather autobiographical. It also makes you feel close to the main charact...