Archive for January 1, 2011
IN A STRANGE ROOM by Damon Galgut
I’d heard a lot of buzz about IN A STRANGE ROOM, one of the titles shortlisted for the 2010 Booker prize, but since I tend to react negatively to waves of publicity, as the uniform praise for this book climbed, my interest plummeted. I almost didn’t review South African author Damon Galgut’s book IN A STRANGE ROOM, but I changed my mind, and as it turns out IN A STRANGE ROOM is one of the best books I’ve read this year.
IN A STRANGE ROOM isn’t an easy book to review. It’s divided into three distinct sections, and it’s possible, I think, to write the review in several different ways. After chewing over the plot now for several weeks, I’d argue that in this extraordinary novel, Galgut uses travel as a way of exploring two heavily nuanced relationships, and at the same time, parallels are drawn between journeys taken and relationships endured.
January 1, 2011
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Judi Clark · 
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Tags: 2010 Favorites, Around-the-World, Literary, Travel · Posted in: 2010 Man Booker Shortlist, 2010 Top Picks, Award Winning Author, Literary, Theme driven, World Literature
