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When Laurence Waters arrives at his rural posting, Frank is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not - young, optimistic and full of new schemes. The two become uneasy friends, while the rest of the staff in the deserted hospital view Laurence with a mixture of awe and mistrust. The town beyond the hospital is also coping with new arrivals, and the return of old faces. The brigadier - a self-fashioned dictator from apartheid days - is rumoured to still be alive. And down at Mama's place, a group of soldiers have moved in with their malign commandant, a man Frank has met before and is keen to avoid. Laurence wants to help - bit in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last.
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A gripping read, laced throughout with powerful emotional truth and extraordinary vision. --Independent
One of the best and weirdest novels I have read in a long while. From the first page the reader is gripped. There are traces of J. M. Coetzee and Graham Greene but Damon Galgut is a true original. --Geoff Dyer
'Should have won the Booker.' --Norman Lebrecht, Books of the Year, Evening Standard
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Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa
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- PublisherAtlantic Books
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0143024566
- ISBN 13 9780143024569
- BindingPaperback
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