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
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, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award, The Impostor was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town.
'The bold, fresh voice of South African fiction'
*Observer*
'A latter day Heart of Darkness'
*Daily Mail*
'His sentences have such hypnotic power that once started, this
novel is very hard to put down'
*The Times*
'A lovely, lethal, disturbing novel'
*Guardian*
'A gripping read, laced throughout with powerful emotional truth
and Damon Galgut's extraordinary vision'
*Independent*
'As good as Graham Greene'
*Sunday Times*
'Should have won the Booker.'
*Evening Standard*
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