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Booker-Preisträger 2021 Damon Galgut (»Das Versprechen«) erzählt eine intensive Geschichte über eine Freundschaft, die von Verrat überschattet wird. Ein großer Roman über die Hoffnungen und Enttäuschungen Südafrikas nach der Apartheid. »Damon Galgut ist die starke, frische Stimme der südafrikanischen Literatur.« The Observer In einem halb verlassenen Krankenhaus tief in den ehemaligen Homelands von Südafrika fristet Frank Eloff ein ereignisloses Dasein. Als der junge Arzt Laurence Waters auftaucht, um hier sein freiwilliges Jahr zu absolvieren, begegnet ihm Frank sofort mit Misstrauen. Laurence ist das komplette Gegenteil von Frank: jung, optimistisch und beseelt von einem naiven Idealismus, der nie an der Realität getestet wurde. Er erkennt nicht, dass an diesem gottverlassenen Ort unter der friedlichen Oberfläche tödliche Spannungen brodeln – und beschwört eine Katastrophe herauf …

Název románu se týká slibu, který Rachel, matka rodiny Swartových, dala černošské služce Salome: stane se majitelkou domku, v němž na pozemku Swartových bydlí. Manžel umírající Rachel slíbí, že její slib splní. Slib však zůstává téměř 40 let nesplněn… Před námi se postupně odhalují osudy bělošské rodiny stejně jako dějiny Jihoafrické republiky od apartheidu přes nadějný nástup Nelsona Mandely až po současnost.

From an ancient castle in Bavaria and a pre-War villa in Milan, to a winter landscape in Lesotho and the suburban streets of Pretoria, the stories in The Alphabet of Birds take an acute look at South Africans at home and abroad. In one story, a strange, cheerful Japanese man visits a young South African as he takes care of his dying mother; in another, a woman battles corrupt bureaucracy in the Eastern Cape. A man trails his lover through the underground dance clubs of Berlin, while in London a young banker moves through layers of decadence as a soul would through purgatory. Pulsating with passion, loss, and melancholia, S J Naudé’s collection The Alphabet of Birds is filled with music, art, architecture, myth, the search for origins and the shifting relationships between people.

In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. It will be another twelve years, and a second time spent in India, before A Passage to India, E. M. Forster's great work of literature, is published. During these years, Morgan will come to a profound understanding of himself as a man, and of the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature, bringing these great insights to his remarkable novel. At once a fictional exploration of the life and times of one of Britain's finest novelists - his struggle to find a way of living and being - and a stunningly vivid evocation of the mysterious alchemy of the creative process, Arctic Summer is a literary masterpiece, by one of the finest writers of his generation.

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Damon Galgut's masterful novel, shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, explores themes of longing and thwarted desire through one man's three distinct journeys.

A gripping tale of guilty secrets, betrayal, and racial tension, of isolation and revenge in modern-day South Africa, from the Man Booker Prize--shortlisted author of The Good Doctor. When Adam moves into the abandoned house on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping to recover from the loss of his job and his home in the city. But when he meets Canning -- a shadowy figure from his childhood -- and Canning's enigmatic and beautiful wife, a sinister new chapter in his life begins. Canning has inherited a vast fortune and a giant folly in the veld, a magical place of fantasy and dreams that seduces Adam and transforms him absolutely, violently -- and perhaps forever. The Impostor evokes a hot and cruel and claustrophobic world, in which sex and death are never far from the surface. Skilfully interweaving the story of one man's struggle to regain his moral centre with the disorienting, often tragic effects of massive social and political change, it is Galgut's most powerful and unforgettable novel yet.

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

The internationally acclaimed novel, is the story of an idealistic medical graduate who arrives at an isolated South African hospital to take up a year's community service