Small Circle of Beings

Damon Galgut

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Vintage
30 August 2022

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction

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 affair, the stories ripple out from one another, tenderly exposing those bonds we cannot escape.

PRAISE FOR DAMON GALGUT-

'Galgut seems to deliver effortlessly...there's nothing he can't do' Times

'Damon Galgut is very nearly without peer...an essential writer' Garth Greenwell

'Terrifically agile and consistently interesting...certainly up there with Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee' Guardian

By: Damon Galgut
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 182g
ISBN: 9781529198164
ISBN 10: 152919816X
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 30 August 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Small Circle of Beings

One of the world's greatest writers -- Edmund White Remarkable...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 * Galgut addresses conflict and reparation - both political and personal - with extraordinary skill, truthfulness and sensitivity -- Sarah Hall