![]() ![]() Recipients traditionally see a huge spike in sales. By its close, only one Swart will remain alive, and Galgut keeps a bead on mortality and the body the chores of funeral. Former winners include Iris Murdoch, Salman Rushdie and Hilary Mantel. The Promise adopts a protean tone, now menacing, now darkly mirthful. The Booker Prize winner receives £50,000 - over $68,000. With an almost deceptive narrative economy, it offers moving insights into generational divides meditates on what makes a fulfilling life - and how to process death and explores the capacious metaphorical implications of 'promise' in relation to modern South Africa." On each reading we felt that the book grew. ![]() The chair of this year's panel of Booker judges, Maya Jasanoff, described the selection in a statement: " The Promise astonished us from the outset as a penetrating and incredibly well-constructed account of a white South African family navigating the end of apartheid and its aftermath. The promise of the title may be a parcel of land, but it is also the only guarantee common to all of us, that noone gets out of this alive. ![]() He won the Booker Prize 2021 for The Promise, having been shortlisted for the prize twice before (The Good Doctor and. I'm fascinated as a writer by the edge of the map by things that are not said." Damon Galgut is the author of nine novels. "If the only thing you had was a small window that opened on to these four funerals and you didn't get the full trajectory of the family story, as a reader you'd have to fill in those gaps yourself. "It occurred to me that it would be a novel and interesting way of approaching a family saga," the author explained. ![]()
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