Arctic Summer: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE - Softcover

Galgut, Damon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782391592 ISBN 13: 9781782391593

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2015

Synopsis

"In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. It will be another twelve years, and a second time spent in India, before A Passage to India, E. M. Forster's great work of literature, is published. During these years, Morgan will come to a profound understanding of himself as a man, and of the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature, bringing these great insights to bear in his remarkable novel. At once a fictional exploration of the life and times of one of Britain's finest novelists, his struggle to find a way of living and being, and a stunningly vivid evocation of the mysterious alchemy of the creative process, Arctic Summer is a literary masterpiece, by one of the finest writers of his generation."

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Review

Could well be one of the finest literary works published this year... Damon Galgut, among the finest living writers, has not only given life to a quiet enigma who suffered in love but looked at the inspiration and need that helped that enigma write six major novels., Irish Times

Beautifully written and utterly compelling... A vivid, moving account of the man that makes you want to read all his books again., The Times

Galgut is extremely good on Forster's anxieties, his loneliness, his unworldliness... The portrait is beautifully nuanced, a mixture of bold, colourful strokes and delicate little flicks of the brush., Sunday Times

With insight and seemingly effortless fluidity, Mr Galgut has written a beautiful, and at times funny, novel that movingly captures the duality of one of Britain's most thoughtful authors., Economist

It is a project to which Galgut, whose fiction has often covered the terrain of love, race and politics, seems perfectly suited as a writer... A remarkable, lyrical tribute., Guardian

Galgut has so seamlessly incorporated Forster's diaries, letters and novels into his narrative that it is often hard to tell which novelist is which., Daily Telegraph

A masterly piece of fiction. Delicate and detailed., Daily Mail

A beautifully imagined piece, getting deep inside the mind of a major English novelist., Mail on Sunday

Galgut's gifts - of phrasing, of structure, of perception - are on faultless form in these pages... Arctic Summer is a masterpiece., Sunday Business Post

How apt that Arctic Summer, a chronicle of a writer's longest journey to complete his masterpiece, also happens to be Galgut's finest book to date., The Herald (Scotland)

From the Author

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 and the Dublin/IMPAC Award and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa region), The Impostor was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa region) and In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1782391592
• ISBN 13: 9781782391593
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368