| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
249 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
Galgut leads his readers into the developing heart of postapartheid South Africa, a landscape being reshaped by new waves of money and power. Adam Napier leaves Johannesburg looking for a fresh start. Jobless and directionless, but with a head full of literary ambitions, he moves into his brothers dilapidated house on the edge of a backwater town. One day he encounters Canning, a man who claims Adam saved his life in their school days, but whom Adam does not remember at all. But he plays along and, for a time, enjoys all that Canning has: a vast fortune and game preserve inherited from his father, and a beautiful, mysterious younger wife to whom Adam is compulsively, dangerously drawn. A spellbinding achievement from one of the defining members of a new generation of African writers. The Impostor evokes a glittering world in which the moneyed old guard, newly empowered black Africans, and shady foreign businessmen jockey for a piece of the new South African dream. |
| Subject |
Friendship -- South Africa -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Rich people -- South Africa -- Fiction.
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South Africa -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0802170536 |
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9780802170538 |
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