THE BEAUTIFUL SCREAMING OF PIGS

146pp., paperback, Reprint, Cape Town (1991) 2018

Patrick Winter, a young South African recently recently discharged from the army, travels with his mother to meet her new lover, a former freedom-fighter.

Damon Galgut is the author of The Good Doctor, (winner of the 2003 Commonwealth Prize, Africa Region; shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), 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.