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“Extraordinary.”

Author: Claire Messud
Newspaper, blog or website: Harper’s Magazine
Date: Mar 15 2021
URL: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/04/new-books-april-2021/

“A surprising number of novelists are very good; few are extraordinary. Like his compatriot J. M. Coetzee, the South African writer Damon Galgut is of this rare company; like Coetzee, he is stringent, pure...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. Simply: you must read it.”

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