Damon Galgut is one of South Africa's most exciting new literary voices. In The Impostor, his first novel since The Good Doctor, Galgut leads his readers into the developing heart of postapartheid South Africa, a landscape being reshaped by new waves of money and power. 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, but whom Adam does not remember 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. A spellbinding achievement from one of the defining members of a new...
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2012-03-11
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Halvvägs tröttnar jag på historien. Den är en sorts samhällskritisk allegori. Jag kan inte tyda den och tycker inte heller att den är intressant eller spännande. Sydafrikaresenärer kanske tycker annorlunda.
2011-12-11
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Språket föll lätt, och den känns aldrig tung, men lika viskande som den börjar, slutar den, och hans syfte förstår jag nog aldrig.. kanske är det en allegori jag aldrig uppfattar och därför aldrig förstår...
