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A thrilling parable of death and deception from the Booker-shortlisted Galgut. 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, 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.
Price: $17.00
Pages: 176
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Imprint: Grove Press, Black Cat
Publication Date:
30 December 2004
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780802141613
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Fiction: general & literary
Damon Galgut is a South African born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His novel The Quarry was made into a film, which he himself co-scripted and which was released theatrically in 1998. His novels In a Strange Room and The Good Doctor were shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 and 2010, and his novel The Promise won the Booker Prize in 2021. His other books include Small Circle of Beings and The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, and he is also the author of the plays Echoes of Anger, Party for Mother, Alive and Kicking, and The Green’s Keeper.