FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE
Damon Galgut's first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at home.
An exquisite early work by the Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut.
The family - that small circle of beings where love should flourish - can be an arid and alienating territory where hatred and violence may ignite. The title novella is set in a house far out of town, at the end of a dust road that rises up into the mountains. The desperate bondage of family life is revealed to a mother as she sits at her son's bedside where he lies sick, perhaps dying. Galgut's understated prose unpicks the emotional paradoxes of family life with a surprising, surreal twist.
In a world where some of the most intimate relationships are those between strangers, Small Circle of Beings describes how children must learn to pull away from their parents if they are to find their own way.
- ISBN10 1782396314
- ISBN13 9781782396314
- Publish Date 7 May 2015 (first published 25 July 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 November 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Atlantic Books
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English