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Jun 17, 2021 · “ The Promise by Damon Galgut is an exceptional book, beautifully written with characters you come to care deeply about.”— BBC “The unusual narrative style balances a kind of Faulknerian exuberance with a Nabokovian precision and is a testament to the flourishing of the novel in the 21st century.
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Jan 1, 2021 · Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life’s unfulfilled potential; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life ...
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- Damon Galgut
Apr 6, 2021 · The promise is buried along with Rachel, only to be unearthed years later when subsequent family deaths force the Swarts to recollide for the rituals of mourning. Galgut moves fluidly among accounts of every single major and minor character, his prose unbroken by quotation marks or italics, as though narrated from the perspective of a ghost who ...
Nov 3, 2021 · Nov. 3, 2021 1:42 PM PT. Damon Galgut has been awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel “The Promise.”. Published in April by Europa Editions, the novel is set near Pretoria, South Africa ...
Booker Prize winner The Promise is a family novel about relationships between members of a white South African family, told through the lens of four funerals across several decades and seasons. Gloucester Book Club were chosen to receive copies to read and review. Given it won the Booker Prize in 2021, and we had never read any of Galgut’s ...
Mar 3, 2022 · Confident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at its finest. Publisher: Vintage Publishing. ISBN: 9781529113877. Number of pages: 304. Weight: 216 g. Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 18 mm. MEDIA REVIEWS. A superb novel; a nuanced, sad, hilarious portrait of a family and a country - PAULA HAWKINS.
The Promise: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021. Paperback. Discover the powerful prizewinning story of a family in crisis. The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand ...
