Impostor

Impostor Synopsis

An ';unsettling and engaging' novel about contemporary South Africa, from the Man Booker Prizewinning author ofThe Promise(The Telegraph). 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. Adam does not remember him 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. '
• An antipastoral, post-apartheid noir' (Publishers Weekly) by '
• a worthy heir to Gordimer and Coetzee', The Imposter evokes a glittering world of the moneyed old guard, newly empowered black Africans, and the betrayal and obsessions hiding in the shadows of the new South African dream (The Guardian, UK)