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The Good Doctor

The Good Doctor

by Damon Galgut
Paperback
Publication Date: 29/11/2022
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Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE

Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital postingfull of optimism. Frank, the disgruntled deputy, is forced to share his room with the new arrival but is determined to stay out of Laurence's ambitious schemes. When the dilapidated hospital is looted, the two men find themselves uneasy allies in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present.

 

ISBN:
9781838958862
9781838958862
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
29-11-2022
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x16mm
Weight:
0.2kg

'The Good Doctor will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa's transition... by a novelist of great and growing power.'
-- Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart

'A lovely, lethal, disturbing novel'
- Guardian

Damon Galgut

Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry and The Good Doctor.

The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. In a Strange Room was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Damon Galgut lives in Cape Town.

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