El impostor - Softcover

Galgut, Damon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8498678072 ISBN 13: 9788498678079

Publisher: RBA Libros, 2010

Synopsis

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Review

"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

"[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

About this edition

• Publisher: RBA Libros
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 8498678072
• ISBN 13: 9788498678079
• Binding: Paperback