Damon Galgut's first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at home
The family—that small circle of beings where love should flourish—can be an arid and alienating territory where hatred and violence may ignite. The title novella is set in a house far out of town, at the end of a dust road that rises up into the mountains. The desperate bondage of family life is revealed to a mother as she sits at her son's bedside where he lies sick, perhaps dying. Galgut's understated prose unpicks the emotional paradoxes of family life with a surprising, surreal twist. In a world where some of the most intimate relationships are those between strangers, Small Circle of Beings describes how children must learn to pull away from their parents if they are to find their own way.
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About the Author:
Damon Galgut is the author of The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Good Doctor, In a Strange Room, and A Sinless Season. His novels have twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize (The Good Doctor; In A Strange Room), and The Impostor was shortlisted for the Dublin/IMPAC Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, which Galgut also won with The Good Doctor.
Review:
"His powerful writing is honest and insightful, polished as it is to a marble-like perfection." —Globe and Mail on Arctic Summer
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- PublisherAtlantic Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 184354461X
- ISBN 13 9781843544616
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
- EditorFarmer Clara
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