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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
'The Good Doctor will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa's transition... by a novelist of great and growing power.' -- Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart
Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital postingfull of optimism. Frank, the disgruntled deputy, is forced to share his room with the new arrival but is determined to stay out of Laurence's ambitious schemes. When the dilapidated hospital is looted, the two men find themselves uneasy allies in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present.
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'The bold, fresh voice of South African fiction' , Observer
'A latter day Heart of Darkness' -- Michael Arditti, Daily Mail
'His sentences have such hypnotic power that once started, this novel is very hard to put down' -- Russell Celyn Jones, The Times
'A lovely, lethal, disturbing novel' -- Christopher Hope, Guardian
'A gripping read, laced throughout with powerful emotional truth and Damon Galgut's extraordinary vision' -- Julie Wheelwright, Independent
'As good as Graham Greene' -- Joan Bakewell, Sunday Times
'Should have won the Booker.' -- Norman Lebrecht, Books of the Year, Evening Standard
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 and The Quarry. He lives in Cape Town, and The Good Doctor is his first novel for seven years.
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- PublisherAtlantic Books
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1782396241
- ISBN 13 9781782396246
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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