In a Strange Room

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'Superb... With this new book Galgut has struck out in a new direetion and taken his writing to a whole other level. It is a quite astonishing work. William Skidelsky, Observer Ayoung man makes three journeys, that take him through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way - including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless baekpaekers and a woman on the edge - he is the Follower, the Lover and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man's best intentions, each journey ends in disaster. Together, these three journeys will change his life. A növel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a Strange Room is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man's search for love and for a place to call home. 'Galgut is an outstanding writrr: his prose is acute, beautiful, unsettling. I have rarely felt so moved whilst reading.' Sarah Hall, The Times I doubt if any book this year will contain more... Tovább

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'Superb... With this new book Galgut has struck out in a new direetion and taken his writing to a whole other level. It is a quite astonishing work. William Skidelsky, Observer Ayoung man makes three journeys, that take him through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way - including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless baekpaekers and a woman on the edge - he is the Follower, the Lover and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man's best intentions, each journey ends in disaster. Together, these three journeys will change his life. A növel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a Strange Room is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man's search for love and for a place to call home. 'Galgut is an outstanding writrr: his prose is acute, beautiful, unsettling. I have rarely felt so moved whilst reading.' Sarah Hall, The Times I doubt if any book this year will contain more memorable evocations of place than In a Sfrange Room... Highly polished, it is alsó extraordinarily readable... Awriter's növel par excellence without a clumsy word in it.' Jan Morris, Guardian Intense, candid and bleak... Galgut, the most sensitive of writers, invariably describes psychological suffering and emotional alienation with the accuracy of a punch dispatched hard and deep to the stomach... Thoughtful, intelligent, cohesively humán.' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times Vissza