The Impostor (Paperback) by Damon Galgut

from icolford

Adam Napier's life has unravelled. He has lost his job and home in Johannesburg and, lacking the financial and visceral resources to mount an immediate rebound, moves into the empty house that his successful brother Gavin had purchased a number of years earlier with the intention of turning it in...

from Jcambridge

Damon Galgut does a great job of presenting the intricate challenges faced in post-apartheid South Africa, as well as within families. His characters and settings are complex yet believable.

from getupkid10

A character driven story Adam NApier, an unemployed man, turned poet, who moves to one of his rich brother's dilapidated homes out in the bush. He plans to right poetry, but never finds inspiration nor skill to produce anything of merit. He thinks he is a poet; he is not. While killing time at th...

from ElizaJane

Adam Napier lives in South Africa just after the abolition of Apartheid. He has always been against Apartheid and now ironically he has lost his job to make way for race equality in the work place, losing his job to the black man he had been training. One time poet, he decides it is time to start...

from stef7sa

It is a miracle to me that this novel hasn't become a major bestseller as it has all the elements necessary: interesting characters, intriguing storyline, a well-hidden plot and beautiful prose. In addition it poses questions about the lack of truthfulness in our lives: how often are we untrue to...