The Good Doctor

Author: Damon Galgut
ISBN: 9781843542025
Publisher: Atlantic Books (United Kingdom) 2004

Galgut’s fifth novel was short listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2005 and explores post-apartheid South Africa where social tensions still exist. Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting full of optimism. Frank, the disgruntled deputy, is forced to share his room with the new arrival but is determined to stay out of Laurence's ambitious schemes. When the dilapidated hospital is looted, the two men find themselves uneasy allies in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present. The Good Doctor is an unsettling and brilliant novel about an unlikely friendship and a shocking betrayal.

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