# The Quarry

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- Authors: [Damon Galgut](https://www.bookquiver.com/damon-galgut)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- ISBN: 978-17-8239-630-7
- Published: 2015-05-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE A breathtaking parable of death and deception from the Booker Prize-winning author. Damon Galgut’s ‘lost’ novel, written in 1995 but unpublished outside South Africa for ten years. On a lonely stretch of road a nameless man commits a murder. The victim is a religious minister on his way to take up a post in a nearby town. The murderer decides to steal the dead man’s identity in order to conceal the crime. But one of his first duties as the new minister is to bury a body that has just been discovered in suspicious circumstances. As the corpse is laid to rest the manhunt begins… In The Quarry , Galgut’s tender prose combines with the power of myth to create a devastating drama, alive with tension.