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The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs

The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs

by Damon Galgut (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $7.23
Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003

'An astonishingly sensitive writer' -- Irish Times

A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the its first free elections, Patrick has returned to the country he defended; the place where he fell in love for the first and only time. With the country poised to change forever, Patrick is forced to revisit his past and scale the wall that he has built around his painful memories of love and war, and loss.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 13 Apr 2006
ISBN 10: 1843544628
ISBN 13: 9781843544623
Book Overview: 'An astonishingly sensitive writer' - Irish Times

Media Reviews
An opportunity for Damon Galgut's legion of fans to discover the breakthrough novel by 'a novelist of great and growing power' (Rian Malan) 'Damon Galgut is a writer of immense clarity and control. His prose feels as if it's been fired through a crucible, burning away all the comfortable excess until only a hard, concentrated purity remains... scarily precise writing.' Patrick Ness, Daily Telegraph on The Quarry
Author Bio
Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963, and now lives in Cape Town. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor, The Impostor, and In A Strange Room. His novels have twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize (The Good Doctor; In A Strange Room), and The Impostor was shortlisted for the Dublin/IMPAC Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, which Galgut also won with The Good Doctor.