In a strange room
Galgut, Damon, 1963-
In a strange room / Damon Galgut - New York : Europe Editions , 2010. - 207 p. ; 22 cm.
Writing from both first- and third-person perspectives, Galgut firmly places his audience into the action as it's happening to the young Damon; then, rather disconcertingly, he reflects upon his younger self from a distance of many years. We meet a rootless man, born in South Africa yet not at home there, wandering the world neither searching for nor escaping from anything. He travels through Greece, India, and Africa, picking up and shaking off companions along the way, seemingly incapable of forging meaningful connections. There is sexual tension with Reiner, a beautiful young man who follows him to a hostel in Greece, and the potential for a relationship with a Swiss soldier that doesn't come to fruition. His only long-term friendship, with Anna, breaks under the crushing stranglehold of the bipolar disorder that threatens her life.
9781609450113
2010474634
015536311 Uk
Young men----Fiction
Travelers----Fiction.
PR9369.3.G28 / I5 2010
FIC GAL
In a strange room / Damon Galgut - New York : Europe Editions , 2010. - 207 p. ; 22 cm.
Writing from both first- and third-person perspectives, Galgut firmly places his audience into the action as it's happening to the young Damon; then, rather disconcertingly, he reflects upon his younger self from a distance of many years. We meet a rootless man, born in South Africa yet not at home there, wandering the world neither searching for nor escaping from anything. He travels through Greece, India, and Africa, picking up and shaking off companions along the way, seemingly incapable of forging meaningful connections. There is sexual tension with Reiner, a beautiful young man who follows him to a hostel in Greece, and the potential for a relationship with a Swiss soldier that doesn't come to fruition. His only long-term friendship, with Anna, breaks under the crushing stranglehold of the bipolar disorder that threatens her life.
9781609450113
2010474634
015536311 Uk
Young men----Fiction
Travelers----Fiction.
PR9369.3.G28 / I5 2010
FIC GAL
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