The Quarry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802141613)

Damon Galgut established himself as a writer of international caliber with the publication of The Good Doctor, which was sold in sixteen countries and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the African region. The Quarry, written ten years ago but never published outside of South Africa, is another stark, intense, and crystalline novel in which human nature betrays itself against the desolate backdrop of rural South Africa. On a lonely stretch of road a man picks up a hitchhiker. The driver is a minister on his way to a new rural congregation; the passenger is a fugitive. When the minister realizes this, the fugitive kills him. He assumes his vestments and identity, only to discover that one of his first duties as the new minister is to preside over his victim's funeral. As the fugitive and the local police chief play a tense game of cat and mouse, culminating in a pursuit across the desolate veldt, Damon Galgut gives us a spare, devastating combat for man's most prized attribute: freedom.

Author: Damon Galgut
ISBN-10: 0802141617
ISBN-13: 9780802141613
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2004
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.49d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2004 pg. 977
Booklist 11/15/2004 pg. 561
Publishers Weekly 11/29/2004 pg. 21
Ingram Advance 02/01/2005 pg. 53
Library Journal 02/01/2005 pg. 68