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Galgut, Damon
The Good Doctor
New York Grove Press 2003 0802117643 / 9780802117649 First U.S. Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible
215 pp.; 22 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First American Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "A taut, intense tale of the dashed hopes of the post-apartheid era and the small betrayals that doom a friendship. A finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Good Doctor is a taut, intense tale of the dashed hopes of the postapartheid era and the small betrayals that doom a friendship. It has been greeted with enthusiastic interest around the world and assures Damon Galgut's place as a major international talent. When Laurence Waters arrives at his new post at a deserted rural hospital, staff physician Frank Eloff is instantly suspicious. Laurence is young, optimistic, and full of big ideas--everything Frank, hardened and embittered by years of irrelevancy and disappointment in the 'bush,' is not. Frank watches with a mixture of bemusement and irritation as Laurence sets about trying to bring the hospital and its diffident staff back to life. The whole town is beset with new arrivals and the return of old faces. Frank reestablishes a secret romantic liaison with a local woman, one that will have unexpected consequences for him, for her, and even for Laurence. The Brigadier, an African who shaped himself into a local dictator during apartheid days, is rumored to be back in town, and active in cross-border smuggling. A group of soldiers has moved in to track him, and to close the borders, led by a man from Frank's own dark past. Laurence sees only possibilities--but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last. When the final denouement comes, who will make the cynical choice, and who the moral one? The Good Doctor is a sparkling, highly accomplished piece of fiction that casts an unsparing eye on the 'new' South Africa and on the deceptions and self-deceptions that crawl under the surface of the human struggle to do what is right." - Publisher.
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Galgut, Damon
The Impostor
New York Grove Press; Black Cat Edition 2009 0802170536 / 9780802170538 First edition thus Trade Paperback Fine
249 pp.; 21 cm. AS NEW. "Damon Galgut is one of South Africa's most exciting new literary voices. In The Impostor, his first novel since The Good Doctor, Galgut leads his readers into the developing heart of postapartheid South Africa, a landscape being reshaped by new waves of money and power. Adam Napier leaves Johannesburg looking for a fresh start. Jobless and directionless, but with a head full of literary ambitions, he moves into his brother's dilapidated house on the edge of a backwater town. One day he encounters Canning, a man who claims Adam saved his life in their school days, but whom Adam does not remember at all. But he plays along and, for a time, enjoys all that Canning has: a vast fortune and game preserve inherited from his father, and a beautiful, mysterious younger wife to whom Adam is compulsively, dangerously drawn. A spellbinding achievement from one of the defining members of a new generation of African writers, The Impostor evokes a glittering world in which the moneyed old guard, newly empowered black Africans, and shady foreign businessmen jockey for a piece of the new South African dream." - Publisher.
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6.95 USD
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