The Impostor: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE

Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (Africa region)

When Adam moves into an abandoned house on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping to recover from the loss of his job and his home in the city. But when he meets Canning - a shadowy figure from his childhooh - and Canning's enigmatic and beautiful wife, a sinister new chapter in his life begins. Canning has inherited a vast fortune and built for himself a giant folly in the veld, a magical place of fantasy and dreams that seduces Adam and transforms him absolutely, violently - and perhaps forever.

Damon Galgut's magnificent novel evokes a hot and cruel and claustrophobic world, in which sex and death are never far from the surface. It is his most powerful and unforgettable novel yet.

© 2011 Atlantic Books (Ebook): 9780857895295

Release date

Ebook: 1 March 2011