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In a Strange Room, by Damon Galgut (Europa; $15).
It became a strange room because someone had walked out".
Oddly enough, though, In A Strange Room has left me with a soothing sense of serenity.
Sometimes, indeed, it feels like we're living inside a strange room here.
For Damon, the white South African protagonist of "In a Strange Room," travel is a mostly pleasureless compulsion.
The hero was an unshaven man who woke in a strange room with no idea where he was or why.
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The ones with young children, children who (even after doors are shut and places marked as off limits) wander into strange rooms and place gooey hands on fine fabrics, as if making charming batik prints?
The museum's moulds enjoy a worldwide reputation, but the strange rooms of preserved faces and limbs feel like something created by Swiss surrealist H R Giger – more commonly known as the man who created the apocalyptic, stomach-churning visuals for the Alien, Poltergeist and Prometheus movies.
Through the book's first section we follow a nameless narrator through strange rooms with dead rabbits, TV snow, oily bathwater, dark images floating in mirrors, and parties full of wives of cops.
Over the next few weeks, parents across the United States will be taking their sons and daughters to college, lugging desk lamps, extra socks and freshly-laundered duvets to the still-strange rooms they will soon call home.
This is a very strange dining room.
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