Greetings from Three Lives & Company,

We hope you can join us next Monday, 29 September, at 7.00p, for a reading by Damon Galgut from

his new novel,  Arctic Summer.

Damon Galgut

Arctic Summer

Monday, 29 September

7.00p

Reading & Signing

In his fictional biography of the novelist E. M. Forster, Damon Galgut reveals the renowned writer's creative process and his struggles with his sexual desires. From India to Egypt to England, Galgut

traces the life of Forster and the relationships  -- from the poet C.P. Cavafy to an Egyptian tram conductor -- that informed his life and work.

~ ~ The concern is Forster's inner life, and Galgut inhabits him with such

sympathetic completeness, and in prose of such modest excellence, that

he starts to breathe on the page.  ~ The Financial Times

~ ~ A remarkable story beautifully told... Galgut's formidable talent as a

novelist transforms the facts of Forster's life into art.  ~ The Washington Post

~ ~ The genius of this novel, which would well be one of the finest literary

works published this year, lies in Galgut's exploration of the agony of

unrequited love.  ~ The Irish Times

~ ~ The portrait is beautifully nuanced, a mixture of bold, colourful strokes

and delicate little flicks of the brush. ~ The Sunday Times

Damon Galgut is the author of the Commonwealth Writers Prize winning novel, The Good Doctor, and the Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel, In a Strange Room.  He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

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