


Galgut's fiction, South Africa materializes, vast, astonishing, resonant. Simply: you must read it."-Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine "Time and again in Mr. "Galgut extends his extraordinary corpus with a rich story of family, history, and grief."-Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "This tour-de-force unleashes a searing portrait of a damaged family and a troubled country in need of healing."-Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "The novel carries within it the literary spirits of Woolf and Joyce To praise the novel in its particulars-for its seriousness for its balance of formal freedom and elegance for its humor, its precision, its human truth-seems inadequate and partial.
