| Author: | Damon Galgut | ISBN: | 9781555849177 |
| Publisher: | Grove Atlantic | Publication: | January 6, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Black Cat | Language: | English |
| Author: | Damon Galgut |
| ISBN: | 9781555849177 |
| Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
| Publication: | January 6, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Black Cat |
| Language: | English |
An “unsettling and engaging” novel about contemporary South Africa, from the Man Booker Prize-short-listed author of The Good Doctor (The Telegraph).
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. Adam does not remember him 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.
“An antipastoral, post-apartheid noir” (Publishers Weekly) by “a worthy heir to Gordimer and Coetzee”, The Imposter evokes a glittering world of the moneyed old guard, newly empowered black Africans, and the betrayal and obsessions hiding in the shadows of the new South African dream (The Guardian).
An “unsettling and engaging” novel about contemporary South Africa, from the Man Booker Prize-short-listed author of The Good Doctor (The Telegraph).
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. Adam does not remember him 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.
“An antipastoral, post-apartheid noir” (Publishers Weekly) by “a worthy heir to Gordimer and Coetzee”, The Imposter evokes a glittering world of the moneyed old guard, newly empowered black Africans, and the betrayal and obsessions hiding in the shadows of the new South African dream (The Guardian).
