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The Promise
Winner Of The Booker Prize 2021
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language: english
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Vintage Publishing, March of 2022 ‧
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Winner of the Booker Prize 2021
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022
A masterpiece of a family in crisis from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut
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.
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022
A masterpiece of a family in crisis from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut
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.
REVIEWS
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
DETAILS
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9781529113877 |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Release Date: | March of 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Dimensions: | 128 x 191 x 17 mm |
| Cover: | Softcover |
| Pages: | 304 |
| Format: | Book |
| Categories: |
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| EAN: | 9781529113877 |
REVIEWS
Interessante
Sara Inês
Damon Galgut compôs um romance inteligente que examina os laços familiares, as relações sociais e raciais e até as várias religiões, visto que em cada um dos quatro capítulos que o compõem há uma cerimónia fúnebre que segue determinados preceitos ou a ausência total destes como protesto
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Damon Galgut
Damon Galgut nasceu em Pretória em 1963. Escreveu o seu primeiro romance, A Sinless Season, aos dezassete anos. Entre as suas obras contam-se os títulos Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor, O Impostor e Um Quarto Desconhecido.
The Good Doctor foi nomeado para o Man Booker Prize, o Commonwealth Writers' Prize e o Dublin/IMPAC Award, O Impostor foi também nomeado para o Commonwealth Writers' Prize e Um Quarto Desconhecido recebeu uma nomeação para o Man Booker Prize. Damon Galgut vive na Cidade do Cabo.
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