A review by leasttorque
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut

3.0

This novel read like a very long short story, and so I struggled with it. It’s the disturbing haunted surreal dreamlike incompleteness of it all. There’s something missing that prevents me from inhabiting that kind of writing and my fragile psyche is left unable to get a grip. People have strange unfathomable conversations in a setting in which day-to-day activities were hard to picture.

And yet I can see the brilliance here in how it communicates post-apartheid shifts and resentments and idealism and cynicism and inertia and energy and confusion.