2004年9月7日 · Taut, spare, and compellingly readable, The Good Doctor is a brilliant literary high-wire act short enough to be devoured in one or two sittings. When Laurence Waters arrives at the small rural hospital in a South African homeland where Frank works, Frank is …

2003年1月1日 · Following two men working in a rural, near-deserted South African hospital, Damon Galgut's The Good Doctor is an ambiguous story, in which nothing happens, and everything happens; a book of thick and palpable atmosphere. Frank Eloff is the long-established deputy director of the hospital, perpetually waiting for a step upwards to the top spot ...

The Good Doctor is the fifth novel of South African author Damon Galgut. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was published in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Books and by Grove Press in the United States on 9 January 2004.

2003年1月1日 · Resigned to self-exile at an inadequate hospital in a desolate former "homeland," the disillusioned Dr. Frank Eloff befriends a new volunteer: fresh-faced Dr. Laurence Waters.

2014年10月7日 · Shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker prize, Galgut's fifth novel, his first to be published in the U.S., explores postapartheid South Africa's ambiguous present, where deep-rooted social and political tensions threaten any shared dream for the future.

Damon Galgut’s ‘The Good Doctor’ is a compelling novel that takes readers on a journey through the complexities of human relationships and ethical dilemmas. Set in post- apartheid South Africa , the story follows two doctors – Frank Eloff , a middle-aged physician with a troubled past, and Laurence Waters , a young idealistic doctor ...

2004年10月10日 · A finalist for the Man Booker Prize and Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the region of Africa, The Good Doctor is a taut, intense tale of the dashed hopes of the post apartheid era and the small betrayals that doom a friendship.

2020年4月3日 · Frank Eloff is a world-weary doctor in a remote South African hospital. His world is upturned when an idealistic young Laurence Waters is posted to work with him. The hospital was opened under apartheid, in what was deemed a homeland (impoverished parts of the country that were set aside by the regime for illusory ‘self-determination’).…

2014年10月7日 · An extraordinary parable of the corruption of the flesh and spirit, The Good Doctor has inspired enthusiastic interest around the world and has assured Damon Galgut’s place as a...

2015年9月3日 · It tells the story of Frank Eloff, a staff doctor working in a deserted rural hospital, who is forced to share his room with a blow-in: a younger doctor, Laurence Waters, who is newly qualified, green behind the years and brimming with energy and new ideas.