In a Strange Room

‘One of the most beautiful and unsettling books I’ve ever read. I can’t remember a more troubling and intense study of rootlessness and loneliness; Galgut is a writer of great, almost frightening, depth.’ – Tash Aw

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE

A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply.To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way – including a handsome,enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a woman on the edge – he is theFollower, the Lover and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man’s best intentions, each journeyends in disaster. Together, these three journeys will change his whole life.

A novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a Strange Room is thehauntingly beautiful evocation of one man’s search for love, and a place to call home.