Impostor, The

by Damon Galgut (Author), Damon Galgut (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $21.62

  Adam Napier is retrenched from his not-very-interesting job and, finding his prospects bleak on all fronts, accepts an offer from his successful property developer brother to move to a small cottage in a nondescript Karoo town - where he intends to return to writing poetry, something he did with modest success as young man. One day, while buying garden implements in the town's hardware store, Adam is surprised to be recognised and accosted with extravagant delight by Canning, an old school friend who, it seems, has harboured a strong and devoted sense of connection to Adam ever since their school days. And so begins a pattern for Adam, of spending weekends at what is a lush, green, exotic oasis in the middle of a desert, with a couple who are clearly mismatched and uneasy with each other - Baby, spoilt, bored and seemingly indifferent to everything, her husband included, and Canning, as eager to impress Adam as he is to please him, and to show off his spoils and his connections with people in high places whose credentials appear dubious.

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  Paperback
  2009

  $3.61

  Now available in paperback, The Impostor is the first new novel from Damon Galgut since the Man-Booker-shortlisted The Good Doctor . When Adam moves into an abandoned house on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping to recover from the loss of his job and his home in the city. But when he meets Canning - a shadowy figure from his childhood - and Canning's enigmatic and beautiful wife, a sinister new chapter in his life begins. Canning has inherited a vast fortune and built for himself a giant folly in the veld, a magical place of fantasy and dreams that seduces Adam and transforms him absolutely, violently - and perhaps forever. Damon Galgut's magnificent new novel evokes a hot and cruel and claustrophobic world, in which sex and death are never far from the surface. It is his most powerful and unforgettable novel yet.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $16.90