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By (author) Galgut, Damon Description:
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story.”A moving, brilliantly told family epic” Elizabeth DayTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn 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?”A tour de force… A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh” Booker Judges, 2021”Astonishing” Colm Tóibín”Utterly compelling” Patrick Gale
Review quote:A superb novel; a nuanced, sad, hilarious portrait of a family and a countryReview quote:This story was so powerful, the writing so strong and supple… What an achievementReview quote:A moving, brilliantly told family epic . . . darkly comic . . . phenomenally goodReview quote:Layered, clever…with a gripping storyReview quote:A brilliant book told over four decades and four funerals . . . These are characters dancing on the edge of ruin . . . IntoxicatingReview quote:Astonishing . . . about fate and loss, about three siblings and land, a promise made a brokenReview quote:A remarkable tale of four generations of one South African family and of the country itself… No wonder it won the BookerReview quote:Vivid and suggestive, moving and often very funnyReview quote:Outstanding . . . Gripping . . . There is also plenty of unexpected comedyReview quote:Brilliant… Rarely have I had such a strong sense, while reading a novel, that I myself was there, in the room with the charactersBiographical note: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.
