An ';unsettling and engaging' novel about contemporary South Africa, from the Man Booker Prizewinning author ofThe Promise(The Telegraph). Adam Napier leaves Johannesburg looking for a fresh start. Jobless and directionless, but with a head full of literary ambitions, he moves into his brother's dilapidated house on the edge of a backwater town. One day he encounters Canning, a man who claims Adam saved his life in their school days. Adam does not remember him at all. But he plays along and, for a time, enjoys all that Canning has: a vast fortune and game preserve inherited from his father, and a beautiful, mysterious younger wife to whom Adam is compulsively, dangerously drawn. ';An antipastoral, post-apartheid noir' (Publishers Weekly) by ';a worthy heir to Gordimer and Coetzee', The Imposter evokes a glittering world of the moneyed old guard, newly empowered black Africans, and the betrayal and obsessions hiding in the shadows of the new South African dream (The Guardian, UK).
| ISBN: | 9781555849177 |
| Publication date: | 6th January 2009 |
| Author: | Galgut, Damon |
| Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |