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The Promise: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021
Damon Galgut
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Description for The Promise: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021
Paperback. On a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least their treatment of the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. Salome was to be given her own house, her own land...yet somehow, that vow is carefully ignored. As each decade passes, and the family assemble again, one question hovers over them. Can you ever escape the repercussions of a broken promise?
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021
One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story.
'A moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth Day
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
On a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least their treatment of the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. Salome was to be given her own house, her own land...yet somehow, that vow is carefully ignored.
As each decade passes, and the family assemble ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781529113877
SKU
9781529113877
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Ref
99-1
About Damon Galgut
DAMON GALGUT is the author of nine novels. He won the Booker Prize 2021 for The Promise, having been shortlisted for the prize twice before (The Good Doctor and In A Strange Room). He lives and works in Cape Town.
Reviews for The Promise: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021
A superb novel; a nuanced, sad, hilarious portrait of a family and a country
PAULA HAWKINS This story was so powerful, the writing so strong and supple... What an achievement
CLARE CHAMBERS A moving, brilliantly told family epic . . . darkly comic . . . phenomenally good
ELIZABETH DAY Layered, clever...with a gripping story
CLAIRE ... Read more
PAULA HAWKINS This story was so powerful, the writing so strong and supple... What an achievement
CLARE CHAMBERS A moving, brilliantly told family epic . . . darkly comic . . . phenomenally good
ELIZABETH DAY Layered, clever...with a gripping story
CLAIRE ... Read more