In this literary tour de force, twice Booker shortlisted novelist Damon Galgut evokes the life and work of E. M. Forster, his travels to India, and the freedom and inspiration he found there.
Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor, The Impostor and In A Strange Room. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa region), The Impostor was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa region) and In a Strange Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town.
Could well be one of the finest literary works published this
year... Damon Galgut, among the finest living writers, has not only
given life to a quiet enigma who suffered in love but looked at the
inspiration and need that helped that enigma write six major
novels. * Irish Times *
Beautifully written and utterly compelling... A vivid, moving
account of the man that makes you want to read all his books again.
* The Times *
Galgut is extremely good on Forster's anxieties, his loneliness,
his unworldliness... The portrait is beautifully nuanced, a mixture
of bold, colourful strokes and delicate little flicks of the brush.
* Sunday Times *
With insight and seemingly effortless fluidity, Mr Galgut has
written a beautiful, and at times funny, novel that movingly
captures the duality of one of Britain's most thoughtful authors. *
Economist *
It is a project to which Galgut, whose fiction has often covered
the terrain of love, race and politics, seems perfectly suited as a
writer... A remarkable, lyrical tribute. * Guardian *
Galgut has so seamlessly incorporated Forster's diaries, letters
and novels into his narrative that it is often hard to tell which
novelist is which. * Daily Telegraph *
A masterly piece of fiction. Delicate and detailed. * Daily Mail
*
A beautifully imagined piece, getting deep inside the mind of a
major English novelist. * Mail on Sunday *
Galgut's gifts - of phrasing, of structure, of perception - are on
faultless form in these pages... Arctic Summer is a
masterpiece. * Sunday Business Post *
How apt that Arctic Summer, a chronicle of a writer's
longest journey to complete his masterpiece, also happens to be
Galgut's finest book to date. * The Herald (Scotland) *
Preoccupied by varieties of sadness - but is so crisply written,
with a deceptive simplicity and directness, that it feels full of
affirmations -- Summer picks * Guardian *
His [E M Forster's] plight is beautifully captured by Damon Galgut
in this plangent novel, rich in period detail... Forster springs
four-square from the page. * Books of the Year, Daily Mail *
With insight and seemingly effortless fluidity, Damon Galgut has
written a beautiful and funny book that movingly captures the
duality of E.M. Forster, one of Britain's most thoughtful
novelists. * The Economist, Books of the Year *
A compelling account of Forster's writing and of his sexual
preoccupations and longings. * Observer *
[A] perfectly judged and sensitively written novel * Scotland on
Sunday *
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