Small Circle of Beings by Damon Galgut - ISBN: 9781529198164
Paperback
South Africa’s heart laid bare: family, love, and inescapable bonds.

Small Circle of Beings

From the Booker prize-winning author of The Promise

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    30 August 2022

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Summary

The extraordinary first collection of stories from the 2021 Booker Prize winner

The first collection of extraordinary stories from one of the greatest writers of our time.

With astonishing clarity, Booker Prize winner Galgut explores both the intimacies and violence of family life against the complex landscape of 1980s South Africa. From a mother who experiences a devastating unmooring after her child falls gravely ill, to a son retracing his late father’s brief yet passionate…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529198164
ISBN-10:152919816X
Author:Damon Galgut
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:30 August 2022
Weight:182g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 14mm
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Critics Review

Remarkable…astonishingly mature, subtle and understated

One of the world’s greatest writers – Edmund WhiteRemarkable…astonishingly mature, subtle and understated * Sunday Express *Galgut explores grief, despair and love in a way that feels ageless * Literary Review *In Mr. Galgut’s fiction South Africa materialises, vast, astonishing, resonant. And on this vastness, he stages intimate dramas that have the force of ancient myth * Wall Street Journal *

About The Author

Damon Galgut

Damon Galgut is the author of nine novels. He won the Booker Prize 2021 for The Promise, having been shortlisted for the prize twice before (The Good Doctor and In A Strange Room). He lives and works in Cape Town.

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