Bøker av Damon Galgut

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 Africa.From a mother who experiences a devastating unmooring after her child falls gravely ill, to a son retracing his late father's brief yet passionate affair, the stories ripple out from one another, tenderly exposing those bonds we cannot escape.PRAISE FOR DAMON GALGUT:'Galgut seems to deliver effortlessly...there's nothing he can't do' Times'Damon Galgut is very nearly without peer...an essential writer' Garth Greenwell'Terrifically agile and consistently interesting...certainly up there with Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee' Guardian

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 whenever cars approach. He is on the run. When a minister on his way to a new congregation offers help - at a price - the fugitive's desperation boils over. Stealing the minister's identity, he is successfully taken in by the township. But when a body is discovered in a nearby quarry, and the local police captain's suspicions grow, the hunt reignites with devastating consequences.'One of South Africa's great literary voices' Economist'Galgut's prose feels as if it's been fired through a crucible, burning away all the comfortable excess until only a hard, concentrated purity remains' Daily Telegraph

The Impostor is the first new novel from Damon Galgut since the Man-Booker-shortlisted The Good Doctor. 'Damon Galgut's book is the best I have read to come out of the new South Africa.' -- Allan Massie, Scotsman

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010'One of the most beautiful and unsettling books I've ever read. I can't remember a more troubling and intense study of rootlessness and loneliness; Galgut is a writer of great, almost frightening, depth.' Tash Aw

Vinner av Bookerprisen 2021 Fire begravelser og et brutt løfte. En saga om en sørafrikansk families tap og fall. Familien Swart samles i Mas begravelse. To av barna, Anton og Amor, avskyr alt familien står for. Etter årevis i trofast tjeneste blir Salome, den svarte kvinnen som har jobbet for dem så lenge de har levd, lovet sitt eget hus og sin egen tomt. Men likevel, etter hvert som årene går, forblir løftet uinnfridd. De gamle, dype skillelinjene i Sør-Afrika er i endring, og samfunnet framstår som mer rettferdig. Landets og familiens historie veves sammen til en fortelling om oppløsning og tapte muligheter. Løftet er en skarp og øm roman, kraftfull på sitt lavmælte vis, og med en språklig sikkerhet som levner liten tvil om at dette er skjønnlitteratur på sitt aller beste.

'An astonishingly sensitive writer' - Irish TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003