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Synopsis
Forty-six-year-old John Wraith regains consciousness after a car accident to learn that his wife and five-year-old daughter died in the same accident. What is all the more traumatic for him is that he was driving the car. At the urging of his sister, John decides to recuperate in her holiday chalet in Nature's Valley, on the South African coast. It is winter and Nature's Valley is mostly deserted - except for a disturbed young woman of twenty one called Jackie, her equally strange brother and her father, who is a born again Christian. John's uneasy yet intense involvement with this trio, particularly with Jackie, to whom he is sexually attracted, provides the novel with its driving narrative and extraordinary, shocking denouement. Written in lucid, often beautiful prose, "Sleeper's Wake" is a haunting study of man at his most naked and vulnerable.
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About the Author
Alistair Morgan was born in Johannesburg in 1971. Two of his short stories have been published in the Paris Review, one of which was nominated for a National Magazine Award and is also included in the O.Henry Prize Stories 2009. Sleeper's Wake is Alistair Morgan's first novel. He lives in Cape Town.
Review
'An exquisitely realised and remarkably assured piece of fiction which marks the arrival of a singular new talent' Sunday Herald 'Not in a very long time have I read something that gripped me so intensely - Quite a tour de force - I often felt like scribbling Bravo!A" in the margin' Andre Brink 'Alistair Morgan grips the reader from the very first line - Literary fiction with the pace of a thriller, this outstanding first novel marks the arrival of an exciting new writer' Irish Examiner 'A serious, harrowing read - Morgan evokes the intensity of the situation brilliantly, making Sleeper's Wake a sombre but gripping experience' Herald 'The spare, unstinting prose and bleak landscape recall Coetzee, as does the single-minded masculinity of the drama' Guardian 'This deeply affecting debut novel, garlanded with praise from Andre Brink, has a voice distinctively its own, each sore word, uttered from the depths of mourning, earning its keep' New Statesman
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- PublisherGranta Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1847080715
- ISBN 13 9781847080714
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages180
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