196pp., paperback, (1988) 2018
A novella and four shorter stories, set in 1980s South Africa.
Damon Galgut is the author of The Good Doctor, (winner of the 2003 Commonwealth Prize Africa Region; shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), Arctic Summer, In a Strange Room (shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize), and The Promise (shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize). In 2013, Galgut was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Cape Town.