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In A Strange Room Viking and then and only then'Beautiful. Strikingly conceived and hauntingly written.' Jan Morris, Guardian Damon Galgut's masterful novel of longing and thwarted desire following one man on three very different journeys. A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels with little purpose, letting the chance encounters of the road dictate his path. But although he knows that he is drifting, he is unable to settle. It is as if, without these