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When Adam moves into an abandoned house on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping to recover from the loss of his job and his home in the city. But when he meets Canning - a shadowy figure from his childhood - and Canning's enigmatic and beautiful wife, a sinister new chapter in his life begins. Canning has inherited a vast fortune and built for himself a giant folly in the veld, a magical place of fantasy and dreams that seduces Adam and transforms him absolutely, violently - and perhaps forever. Damon Galgut's magnificent new novel evokes a hot and cruel and claustrophobic world, in which sex and death are never far from the surface. It is his most powerful and unforgettable novel yet.
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"Fast-paced and breathless...Galgut has a knack for the image that cuts to the quick of a character...his plots seem propelled by a logic of their own." (The Observer)
"Spellbinding." (The Sunday Telegraph)
"Outstanding...[Galgut is] a major writer worthy to be referred to as a kindred spirit of the great Coetzee...The Impostor, with its bleak balancing of boyhood hopes and adult regret, is a great novel." (The Irish Times)
"In one sense, The Impostor is a conventional crime caper, the story of an innocent man who gets sucked into a world that he doesn't understand. In another, it is a critique of contemporary South Africa, a country that, as Galgut depicts it, is beset with cruelty and a spirit of brutish materialism. But there is a third level on which the novel works, that of the fable or parable... Galgut's plots seem propelled by a logic of their own." (The Observer)
Review:
"Spellbinding." (The Sunday Telegraph)
"Outstanding...[Galgut is] a major writer worthy to be referred to as a kindred spirit of the great Coetzee...The Impostor, with its bleak balancing of boyhood hopes and adult regret, is a great novel." (The Irish Times)
"In one sense, The Impostor is a conventional crime caper, the story of an innocent man who gets sucked into a world that he doesn't understand. In another, it is a critique of contemporary South Africa, a country that, as Galgut depicts it, is beset with cruelty and a spirit of brutish materialism. But there is a third level on which the novel works, that of the fable or parable... Galgut's plots seem propelled by a logic of their own." (The Observer)
"[A] gripping tale of secrecy and obsession set in the African savannah." -- Melissa Katsoulis
"Outstanding . . . a major writer worthy to be referred to as a kindred spirit of the great Coetzee."
"Spare, hypnotic prose . . . [a] Dostoyevskian narrative about individual moral choices." -- Rachel Hoer
"Fast-paced and breathless . . . Canning is a memorable creation, a sort of African Gatsby, but without the glamour." -- William Skidelsky
"Outstanding . . . a major writer worthy to be referred to as a kindred spirit of the great Coetzee."
"Spare, hypnotic prose . . . [a] Dostoyevskian narrative about individual moral choices." -- Rachel Hoer
"Fast-paced and breathless . . . Canning is a memorable creation, a sort of African Gatsby, but without the glamour." -- William Skidelsky
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(2008)
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