About the Author:
DAMON GALGUT is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. His most recent novels include In a Strange Room, The Impostor, a regional finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, and The Good Doctor, winner of a regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Galgut lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
Review:
Praise for Damon Galgut:
"His powerful writing is honest and insightful, polished as it is to a marble-like perfection."
— Globe and Mail
“Galgut has so seamlessly incorporated Forster’s diaries, letters and novels into his narrative that it is often hard to tell which novelist is which. The book is frequently very moving, and contains nice touches of Forsterian drollery. . . .
“The pain of unequal love and the desolating gulf between desire and fulfillment, so beautifully conveyed here by Galgut in the case of a long-dead writer, is as recognisable today as it was over a century ago.”
— The Daily Telegraph
“It is a must-read for Forster fans but also stands alone as a man’s story of trying to live in a society which cannot fully accept him.”
— Daily Echo (Bournemouth)
“Arctic Summer . . . [is] a masterly piece of writing. Delicate and detailed.”
— Daily Mail
“With insight and seemingly effortless fluidity, Mr.Galgut has written a beautiful, and at times funny, novel that movingly captures the duality of one of Britain’s most thoughtful authors.” – The Economist
“A remarkable, lyrical tribute...”
— The Guardian
“Damon Galgut, among the finest living writers, has not only given life to [E.M. Forster] a quiet enigma who suffered in love but looked at the inspiration and need that helped that enigma write six major novels.”
– Irish Times
“Galgut inhabits [E.M. Forster] with such sympathetic completeness, and in prose of such modest excellence, that he starts to breathe on the page.”
— Financial Times
“Beautifully written and utterly compelling.... A vivid, moving account of [E.M. Forster] that makes you want to read all his books again....Terrific.”
– The Times
“A bold, imaginative exploration of the novelist's inner life.”
— The Observer
“Galgut is extremely good on Forster’s anxieties, his loneliness, his unworldliness.... The portrait is beautifully nuanced, a mixture of bold, colourful strokes and delicate little flicks.... Galgut writes touchingly about Forster’s mixture of profound reticence and fierce desire....”
– The Sunday Times
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