In a Strange Room Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize

Damon Galgut's In a Strange Room, forthcoming from Europa Editions, is one of six titles shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award.

In a Strange Room, which follows a young loner traveling through Greece, Africa and India, has been extraordinarily well-received by critics in the UK. The Times raved: "This is a wise and brilliant book." The Guardian called it "a beautiful book, strikingly conceived and hauntingly written, a writer's novel par excellence without a clumsy word in it." And The Globe and Mail wrote: "[Galgut's] powerful writing is honest and insightful, polished as it is to a marble-like perfection."

Galgut, who lives in Cape Town, South Africa, was previously shortlisted for the prize in 2003 for his novel The Good Doctor.

The winner of the prize will be announced on October 12.