In a Strange Room: Three Journeys

Damon Galgut

Language: English

Published: Sep 15, 2010

Description:

EDITORIAL REVIEW: For readers of Ian McEwan, Paul Auster, and J.M. Coetzee, **In a Strange Room** is the intricate, psychologically intense, and deeply personal book of fiction from the internationally acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of **The Good Doctor**.A young man named Damon takes three journeys, through Greece, India, and Africa. To those who travel with him and those whom 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 three journeys will change his whole life.A book of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, **In a Strange Room** is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man's search for love and a place to call home.