The South African novelist, winner of the Booker in 2021 with ‘The Promise’, evokes his wandering around the world without direction or purpose in ‘In a Stranger Room’
Years before reaching the 2021 Booker podium and seeing two years of his life disappear between interviews, transatlantic excursions and promotional talks, even before literature became a vital anchor, Damon Galgut (Pretoria, South Africa, 1963) …
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