The Good Doctor (eBook)

Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE

Damon Galgut (Autor)

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2011 | Main
224 Seiten
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-0-85789-511-0 (ISBN)

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WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE & Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

A powerful, taut and intense tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa.

When Laurence Waters arrives at his new post at a deserted rural hospital, staff physician Frank Eloff is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not-young, optimistic, and full of big ideas. The whole town is beset with new arrivals and the return of old faces. Frank reestablishes a liaison with a woman, one that will have unexpected consequences. A self-made dictator from apartheid days is rumored to be active in cross-border smuggling, and a group of soldiers has moved in to track him, led by a man from Frank's own dark past. Laurence sees only possibilities-but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2011
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Coetzee • Dave Eggers • Edward Snowden • Good Doctor • Graham Greene • In a Strange Room • J.M. Coetzee • John Banville • Kazuo Ishiguro • Literary • literary fiction • Man Booker • Margaret Atwood • Paul Auster • Philipp Roth • Post-Apartheid • Savannah • South Africa • south african • south african authors • South African Fiction • South African Novels
• ISBN-10: 0-85789-511-7 / 0857895117
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85789-511-0 / 9780857895110