In a Strange Room

A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa He travels lightly, simply To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a woman on the edge he is the Follower, the Lover and the Guardian Yet, despite the man s best intentions, each journey ends in disaster Together, these three journeys will change his whole life A novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a Strange Room is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man s search for love, and a place to call home. Best Download In a Strange Room [ by ] Damon Galgut [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr 5 existential, melancholy, profound stars This is the perfect night to write this review Gloomy, rainy and cold as I walked the neighborhood earlier while listening to Nick Cave I read this book over our recent vacation late at night on our balcony while watching the moon overlook the Mediterranean Sea This book is my first read by South African Writer Damon Galgut.This book was shortlisted for both the Booker and Ondaatje literary prizes in 2010 I got goosebumps reading these three sho 5 existential, melancholy, profound stars This is the perfect night to write this review Gloomy, rainy and cold as I walked the neighborhood earlier while listening to Nick Cave I read this book over our recent vacation late at night on our balcony while watching the moon overlook the Mediterranean Sea This book is my first read by South African Writer Damon Galgut.This book was shortlisted for both the Booker and ...THE STRANGER INSIDE ME I libri sono viaggi ma perch solo i libri, non lo l Arte in genere e questo romanzo di Galgut, composto da tre racconti lunghi usciti sulla Paris Review con lo stesso protagonista in tre fasi diverse della vita, in apparenza un libro di viaggio tre continenti, Africa in lungo e in largo, Sudafrica, Lesotho, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Marocco , Europa Grecia, Svizzera, Londra, Parigi , Asia India.Andr Thijssen.Ma non un libro che appartenga alla letteratu THE STRANGER INSIDE ME I libri sono viaggi ma perch solo i libri, non lo l Arte in genere e questo romanzo di Galgut, composto da tre racconti lunghi usciti sulla Paris Review con lo stesso protagonista in tre fasi diverse della vita, in apparenza un libro di viaggio tre continenti, Africa in lungo e in largo, Sudafrica, Lesotho, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Marocco , Europa Grecia, Svizzera, Londra, Parigi , Asia India.Andr Thijssen.Ma non un libro che appartenga alla letteratura di viaggio Perch i luoghi sono solo sfondi descritti soprattutto come paesaggi interiori.Perch le condizioni umane sociali ... Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return Except in memory.A young South African man travels through Greece, Africa and India Three journeys, three continents, different people intersecting his life The journeys take place years apart, with him as the only connecting thread In the three stories he is alternately a follower, a lover and a guardian, and we hear the stories from the man he would become, who is looking at him years hence, reliving the three journeys from a dis Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return Except in memory.A young South African man travels through Greece, Africa and India Three journeys, three continents, different people intersecting his life The journeys take place years apart, with him as the only connecting thread In the three stories he is alternately a follower, a lover and a guardian, and we hear the stories fr...Unobtrusive words, nothing fancy or overworked, no backflips or showiness The effect however is heart wrenching Damon Galgut surgically cuts to the vital And leaves you gasping for air There was some discussion when this book made the Booker shortlist in 2010 Is it a novel Not in any conventional sense, no Three accounts of journeys undertaken by a character called Damon, referred to in the third person mostly Galgut is ready to admit that this is indeed himself, and that the events depi Unobtrusive words, nothing fancy or overworked, no backflips or showiness The effect however is heart wrenching Damon Galgut surgically cuts to the vital And leaves you gasping for air There was some discussion when this book made the Booker shortlist in 2010 Is it a novel Not in any conventional sense, no Three accounts of journeys undertaken by a character called Damon, referred to in the third person mostly Galgut is ready to admit that this is indeed himself, and that the events depicted did actually take place and that the narrating I occasionally looks back on his former self and cannot quite recall what he was wearing or what he dreamt of that night So surely that would make it...I m weary of dreary.I know it s an act of book reviewing apostasy, but I ve had it with the exquisitely crafted sighs of depressed men And that s not just the eggnog talking Honestly, how many times do we have to praise the stark story of a wandering, alienated man that Hemingway perfected in The Sun Also Rises way back in 1926 Every year adds two or three haunting masterpieces to this respected subgenre This year s top entries included Joshua Ferris s grave The Unnamed, Dinaw Mengestu I m weary of dreary.I know it s an act of book reviewing apostasy, but I ve had it with the exquisitely crafted sighs of depressed men And that s not just the eggnog talking Honestly, how many times do we have to praise the stark story of a wandering, alienated man that Hemingway perfected in The Sun Also Rises way back i...I don t know if it s something in me or something in the book that makes me think of its title as In a Dark Room, which is not like me at all, as I m a stickler for exact titles There is much darkness here, but the work is focused on the strange not familiar rooms not literal the writer character finds himself in as he travels excessively and obsessively, it sometimes seems.This is a hybrid sort of book It s listed as fiction, but the author names his character Damon and uses both I I don t know if it s something in me or something in the book that makes me think of its title as In a Dark Room, which is not like me at all, as I m a stickler for exact titles There is much darkness here, but the work is focused on the strange not familiar rooms not literal the writer character finds himself in as he travels excessively and obsessively, it sometimes seems.Th...There are certain writers one discovers, whose works one reads, consumes, as if they were writing directly to you, for you Damon Galgut is such an author for me This is the fourth novel a trio of novellas, actually I ve read by him, and it s the most intensely personal, and perhaps along with The Good Doctor, the most beautiful and harrowing.You can find other reviews to tell you plot, etc I ll say simply that Galgut is one of the most authentic and significant novelists writing today There are certain writers one discovers, whose works one reads, consumes, as if they were writing directly to you, for you Damon Galgut is such an author for me This is the fourth novel a trio of novellas, actually I ve read by him, and it s the most intensely personal, and perhaps along with The Good Doctor, the most beautiful and harrowing.You can find other reviews to tell you plot, etc I ll say simply that Galgut is one of the most authentic and significant novelists writing today His writing...How do you sit down and write a review for a book that deep down you know not just speaks for you but in its own strange way represents you Yes represents you, or whatever that is you You don t, you can t You sit and close your eyes and let all the thoughts the book evoked within you turn inside your head, one after another like waves crashing on the shore Some day when the stirring has settled, I will write I know I will.For now, all I can say is just that this book has been written make How do you sit down and write a review for a book that deep down you know not just speaks for you but...I read this while travelling and the unfamiliar surroundings, the new vistas, the waking up in a strange room added an extra dimension to this already challenging reading experience Galgut steps outside the conventions Not for him the adherence to a plot or the limiting of himself to details related to that plot He writes life as she is lived The three interlinked accounts in this novel seem as aimless as the journeys undertaken by the main character, who is mostly referred to simply as he I read this while travelling and the unfamiliar surroundings, the new vistas, the waking up in a strange room added an extra dimension to this already challenging reading experience Galgut steps outside the conventions Not for him the adherence to a plot or the limiting of himself to details related to that plot He write...The Space Between the LinesOpen any page of Galgut s 2010 novel, and you will see that, instead of being set close together as is the usual practice, there is a full line of white space between paragraphs, giving a curiously open look to the page And where the page consists mostly of dialogue, without even quotation marks or the he said, she said indicators, the effect is both striking and curiously unsettling, as though there is nothing to root the book in reality or link its parts together The Space Between the LinesOpen any page of Galgut s 2010 novel, and you will see that, instead of being set close toge...

• English
• 20 October 2018
Damon Galgut
• Hardcover
• 180 pages
• 1848873220
• Damon Galgut
• In a Strange Room