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Winner the 2021 Booker Prize
The Promise by Damon Galgut paperback cover. A family in crisis. A promise unfulfilled.
A book of the year in the Sunday Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, i and New Statesman
'A remarkable tale of four generations of one South African family and of the country' Observer
'Moving brilliantly told ... epic' Elizabeth Day Audiobook ebook editions 'Bursting with life' Times

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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 FULLER ― Daily Mail, Books of the Year

A brilliant book told over four decades and four funerals . . . These are characters dancing on the edge of ruin . . . Intoxicating -- ANNA HOPE

Astonishing . . . about fate and loss, about three siblings and land, a promise made a broken -- COLM TOIBIN

A remarkable tale of four generations of one South African family and of the country itself... No wonder it won the Booker ― Observer, Books of the Year

Vivid and suggestive, moving and often very funny ― Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year

Outstanding . . . Gripping . . . There is also plenty of unexpected comedy ― BBC News

Brilliant... Rarely have I had such a strong sense, while reading a novel, that I myself was there, in the room with the characters ― Financial Times

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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 for -- not least the failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled.

The narrator's eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams; deliciously lethal in its observation. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title.

In this story of a diminished family, sharp and tender emotional truths hit home. Confident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at its finest.

The Promise is masterful work from previously twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; 1st edition (3 Mar. 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1529113873
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1529113877
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm
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