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In a Strange Room

by Damon Galgut · 2010

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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 the Follower, the Lover and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man's best intentions, each journey ends 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 the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man's search for love, and a place to call home.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thisLGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of thisadventureadventureMore like thisLess of thisgaygayMore like thisLess of this
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2010s2010sMore like thisLess of thisAfricaAfricaMore like thisLess of thisIndiaIndiaMore like thisLess of thisGreeceGreeceMore like thisLess of thisAsiaAsiaMore like thisLess of this
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traveltravelMore like thisLess of thisbiographybiographyMore like thisLess of thispsychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 180 pages
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