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Small Circle of Beings

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Damon Galgut’s first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at home. The family – that small circle of being where love should flourish – can be an arid and alienating territory where hatred and violence may ignite.

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The first collection of extraordinary stories from one of the greatest writers of our time.

With astonishing clarity, Booker Prize winner Galgut explores both the intimacies and violence of family life against the complex landscape of 1980s South Africa.

From a mother who experiences a devastating unmooring after her child falls gravely ill, to a son retracing his late father’s brief yet passionate affair, the stories ripple out from one another, tenderly exposing those bonds we cannot escape.

PRAISE FOR DAMON GALGUT:

‘Galgut seems to deliver effortlessly…there’s nothing he can’t do’ Times


‘Damon Galgut is very nearly without peer…an essential writer’ Garth Greenwell


‘Terrifically agile and consistently interesting…certainly up there with Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee’ Guardian

Additional information

Weight 0.182 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.4 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

212

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K