Beautiful Screaming of Pigs (16 page)

Atlantic Books

Paperback Fiction

ISBN 1 84354 202 1

Also by Damon Galgut

The family – that small circle of beings where love should flourish – can also be an arid and alienating territory where hatred and violence may ignite.

Small Circle of Beings
is set in a house far out of town, at the end of a dust road that rises up into the mountains. The desperate bondage of family life is revealed to
a mother as she sits at her son’s bedside where he lies sick, perhaps dying. Galgut’s understated prose unpicks the emotional paradoxes of domesticity with a surprising, surreal twist.
In a world where some of the most intimate relationships are those between strangers,
Small Circle of Beings
describes how children must learn to pull away from their parents if they are to
find their own way.

‘Damon Galgut is a writer of immense clarity and control. His prose feels as if it’s been fired through a crucible, burning away all the comfortable excess until
only a hard concentrated purity remains… scarily precise writing.’
Daily Telegraph

‘Astonishingly mature, subtle and understated…

a remarkable collection.’
Sunday Express

Atlantic Books

Paperback Fiction

ISBN 1 84354 461 X