The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE

The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE

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Author: Damon Galgut

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 160


FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISESHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003 A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the firstfree elections, Patrick has returned to the country he defended; the place where he fell in lovefor the first and only time. With the country poised to change forever, Patrick is forced torevisit his past and scale the wall that he has built around his painful memories of love, warand loss. 'An astonishingly sensitive writer.' - Irish Times 'Engaging and enduring... devastating in the lucidity and austere assurance of itsprose.' - TLS 'A work whose psychological observation is as subtle as its political analysis.' - TheTimes
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Author: Damon Galgut

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 160


FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISESHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003 A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the firstfree elections, Patrick has returned to the country he defended; the place where he fell in lovefor the first and only time. With the country poised to change forever, Patrick is forced torevisit his past and scale the wall that he has built around his painful memories of love, warand loss. 'An astonishingly sensitive writer.' - Irish Times 'Engaging and enduring... devastating in the lucidity and austere assurance of itsprose.' - TLS 'A work whose psychological observation is as subtle as its political analysis.' - TheTimes