The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE
May 2012 · Atlantic Books Ltd
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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003
A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the first free elections, Patrick has returned to the country he defended; the place where he fell in love for the first and only time. With the country poised to change forever, Patrick is forced to revisit his past and scale the wall that he has built around his painful memories of love, war and loss.
'An astonishingly sensitive writer.' Irish Times
'Engaging and enduring... devastating in the lucidity and austere assurance of its prose.' TLS
'A work whose psychological observation is as subtle as its political analysis.' The Times
'A beautifully written and thoughtful meditation on love, loss and longing.' Attitude
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003
A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the first free elections, Patrick has returned to the country he defended; the place where he fell in love for the first and only time. With the country poised to change forever, Patrick is forced to revisit his past and scale the wall that he has built around his painful memories of love, war and loss.
'An astonishingly sensitive writer.' Irish Times
'Engaging and enduring... devastating in the lucidity and austere assurance of its prose.' TLS
'A work whose psychological observation is as subtle as its political analysis.' The Times
'A beautifully written and thoughtful meditation on love, loss and longing.' Attitude
About the author
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, The Good Doctor, The Impostor and In A Strange Room. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award, The Impostor was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2021 The Promise won the Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town.
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