Small Circle Of Beings Av Damon Galgut

<p><b>The first collection of extraordinary stories from one of the greatest writers of our time. </b><br><br>With astonishing clarity, Booker Prize winner Galgut explores both the intimacies and violence of family life against the complex landscape of 1980s South Africa.<br><br>From a mother who experiences a devastating unmooring after her child falls gravely ill, to a son retracing his late father''s brief yet passionate affair, the stories ripple out from one another, tenderly exposing those bonds we cannot escape.<br><br><b>PRAISE FOR DAMON GALGUT:</b><br><b><br>''Galgut seems to deliver effortlessly...there''s nothing he can''t do'' <i>Times</i></b><br><b><br>''Damon Galgut is very nearly without peer...an essential writer'' Garth Greenwell</b><br><b><br>''Terrifically agile and consistently interesting...certainly up there with Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee''<i> Guardian </i></b></p>