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Damon Galgut’s haunting evocation of one man’s search for love and a place to call home - a novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion.There is a moment when any real journey begins. A young man makes three journeys that take him through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and who he meets on the way - including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers 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 journeys will change his life."There's a strongly autobiographical feel to the writing, reinforced by the fact that the narrator, it is revealed, is a South African named Damon. The novel is written in the third person but occasionally shifts to first-person narration, sometimes in the same sentence or paragraph...In a Strange Room takes its title from Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, "In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep ... And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were." If a sense of melancholy and anxiety seems pervasive throug

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Author

Galgut, Damon

Publisher

Europa Editions, Incorporated

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609450182

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Travel