Redundant People

About This Novel

This is the Booker Prize-nominated novel by South African writer Damon Galgot. It tells the story of Lawrence, an idealistic medical graduate, who comes to a remote hospital in South Africa and becomes a roommate with the cynical Frank to receive a year of community service. Lawrence came to a dilapidated and unwanted hospital and faced the dislocation between ideal and reality, as well as the lingering shadow of the old era. Frank, on the other hand, faces a broken marriage, a hopeless future, and a love affair that never ends. When Lawrence attempts to change the status quo with a makeshift clinic, Frank predicts that the move will fail, and their fragile friendship is shattered beyond repair. Just when the temporary clinic was successful, Lawrence disappeared because he prevented the warlord from taking away the patients. Frank lost his friend but gained the position of director. This is a novel that depicts the inner moral and spiritual struggles of individuals. It tells about the different choices of idealists and cynics, and how the unpredictable fates lead them to different endings.

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