From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of Promise: “[A] spare,
intense story of rural South Africa . . . His clear, elemental
prose is never generic” (Booklist). Damon Galgut established
himself as a writer of international caliber with the publication of
The Good Doctor, which was sold in sixteen countries and was a
finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the winner of the Commonwealth
Writers Prize for the African region. The Quarry is another stark,
intense, and crystalline novel in which human nature betrays itself
against the desolate backdrop of rural South Africa. On a lonely
stretch of road a man picks up a hitchhiker. The driver is a minister
on his way to a new rural congregation; the passenger is a fugitive.
When the minister realizes this, the fugitive kills him. He assumes
his vestments and identity, only to discover that one of his first
duties as the new minister is to preside over his victim’s funeral.
As the fugitive and the local police chief play a tense game of cat
and mouse, culminating in a pursuit across the desolate veldt, Damon
Galgut gives us a spare, devastating combat for man’s most prized
attribute: freedom. “The Quarry has the same dry, feral quality
as Damon Galgut’s best-known novel, The Good Doctor. . . . The
issues of guilt, injustice and redemption give the novel a biblical
feel. The writing shines in its peripheral vision, in the backdrops
and corners of its scenes.” —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles
Times
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ISBN
9780802199683
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Atlantic Monthly Press (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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