The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs

Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE

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Damon Galgut

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISESHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003 A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the firstfree elections, Patrick has returned to the country he defended; the place where he fell in lovefor the first and only time. With the country poised to change forever, Patrick is forced torevisit his past and scale the wall that he has built around his painful memories of love, warand loss. 'An astonishingly sensitive writer.' - Irish Times 'Engaging and enduring... devastating in the lucidity and austere assurance of itsprose.' - TLS 'A work whose psychological observation is as subtle as its political analysis.' - TheTimes

Author Biography:

Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor, The Impostor and In A Strange Room. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award, The Impostor was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2021 The Promise won the Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town.

Release date NZ

August 18th, 2022

Author

Damon Galgut

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Edition

Main

Pages

160

Dimensions

129x198x12

ISBN-13

9781838958879

Product ID

35817893

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