The Promise: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021

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Winner of the Booker Prize 2021 - discover the powerful story of a family in crisis. WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 Discover the Sunday Times bestselling story of a family in crisis. 'A tour de force... A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh' Booker Judges, 2021 'A masterpiece - a moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth Day ____________________________ 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 ____________________________ 'Astonishing' Colm T ibin 'Bursting with life' The Times 'So powerful' Clare Chambers 'Utterly compelling' Patrick Gale 'Stunning' Observer ** A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, i AND NEW STATESMAN **

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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 *

Author Bio

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.