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The Good Doctor

Damon Galgut

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'The Good Doctor will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa's transition... by a novelist of great and growing power.' Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South AfricaLaurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting full of optimism. Frank, the disgruntled deputy, is forced to share his room with the new arrival but is determined to stay out of Laurence's ambitious schemes. When the dilapidated hospital is looted, the two men find themselves uneasy allies in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present. 'The Good Doctor will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa's transition... by a novelist of great and growing power.' - Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
224
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
ISBN:
9781782396246
Published Date:
7/5/2015
Dimensions:
198mm x 130mm x 15mm
Weight:
157g
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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RRP: £8.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781782396246

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