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Galgut's Booker Prize-winning novel shifts among the perspectives of various family members gathered in Pretoria for the funeral of their mother who has unexpectedly left an inheritance to her Black caregiver. Settle into the modernist prose style, as Galgut's experiments pay dividends in the second half. For longtime fans of Galgut, this is a marriage of his earliest novels about South Africa and his mature style developed in his last two globe-trotting masterpieces, In a Strange Room and Arctic Summer. See the full list...