{"product_id":"9781555849177","title":"The Impostor: A Novel","description":"Damon Galgut is one of South Africa’s most exciting new literary voices. In \u003ci\u003eThe Impostor, \u003c\/i\u003ehis first novel since \u003ci\u003eThe Good Doctor, \u003c\/i\u003eGalgut leads his readers into the developing heart of postapartheid South Africa, a landscape being reshaped by new waves of money and power. Adam Napier leaves Johannesburg looking for a fresh start. Jobless and directionless, but with a head full of literary ambitions, he moves into his brother’s dilapidated house on the edge of a backwater town. One day he encounters Canning, a man who claims Adam saved his life in their school days, but whom Adam does not remember at all. But he plays along and, for a time, enjoys all that Canning has: a vast fortune and game preserve inherited from his father, and a beautiful, mysterious younger wife to whom Adam is compulsively, dangerously drawn. A spellbinding achievement from one of the defining members of a new generation of African writers, \u003ci\u003eThe Impostor \u003c\/i\u003eevokes a glittering world in which the moneyed old guard, newly empowered black Africans, and shady foreign businessmen jockey for a piece of the new South African dream.","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133723492592,"sku":"9781555849177","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555849177_p0.jpg?v=1769899090","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555849177","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}