false 3420736 7 When Adam moves into the 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 childhood — and Canning’s enigmatic and beautiful wife, a sinister new chapter in his life begins. Canning has inherited a vast fortune and a giant folly in the veld, a magical place of fantasy and dreams that seduces Adam and transforms him absolutely, violently — and perhaps forever. The Impostor evokes a hot and cruel and claustrophobic world, in which sex and death are never far from the surface. Skilfully interweaving the story of one man’s struggle to regain his moral centre with the disorienting, often tragic effects of massive social and political change, it is Galgut’s most powerful and unforgettable novel yet. 3461213 1 6 2008 The Impostor total:38|5:10|4:16|3:10|2:2| 38 148 89 11 4 8 false false Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 02 12:57:16 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 11 02:30:27 -0800 2009 The Shallow Intimacy of The Impostor

(Exploring the Vortex with Damon Galgut)

Dear Damon,

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