The Promise by Damon Galgut - Goodreads
Apr 6, 2021 · The Promise, winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, 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 Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) - amazon.com
Apr 6, 2021 · WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE. A modern family saga written in gorgeous prose by three-time Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch.
The Promise (Galgut novel) - Wikipedia
The Promise is a 2021 novel by South African novelist Damon Galgut, published in May 2021, by Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa. [1] It was published by Europa Editions in the US [2] and by Chatto & Windus in the UK. [3] [4] The novel was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize, making Galgut the third South African to win the Prize.
The Promise | The Booker Prizes
Jun 17, 2021 · The Promise won the Booker Prize in 2021. Brutal emotional truths hit home in Damon Galgut’s deft, powerful story of a diminished family and a troubled land.
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A Family, and a Nation Under Apartheid, Tears at the Seams
Apr 15, 2021 · Galgut’s new work, “The Promise,” studies the Swart family, descendants of Voortrekker settlers, clinging to their farm amid tumultuous social and political change — “just an ordinary...
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Jun 17, 2021 · 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.
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The Promise (Booker Prize Winner)|Paperback - Barnes & Noble
Mar 15, 2022 · Reunited by four funerals over thirty years, the dwindling Swart family remains haunted by the unmet promise, just as their country is haunted by its own failures. The Promise is an epic South African drama that unfurls against the unrelenting march of history, sure to leave its readers transformed. “Simply: you must read it.”—
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Discover the powerful prizewinning story of a family in crisis. 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.
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- Author: Damon Galgut
The Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Hardcover - Amazon.ca
Apr 16, 2021 · WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE. A modern family saga written in gorgeous prose by three-time Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch.
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The Promise - Harvard Review
Mar 17, 2022 · The Promise by Damon Galgut. reviewed by Ella Fox-Martens. Somewhere in apartheid Pretoria, 1985, Rachel Swart, a recently re-converted Jewish woman, dies of cancer. On her deathbed, she feverishly forces her Christian, Afrikaans husband to promise to give the maid, Salome, the house where she already lives.
The Promise - Damon Galgut - Google Books
Discover the powerful prizewinning story of a family in crisis. The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The...
Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’
Nov 3, 2021 · “The Promise,” Galgut’s ninth book, had already won acclaim among critics for its menacing and bleakly funny portrait of the Swart family, descendants of Dutch settlers who are desperately...
THE PROMISE - Kirkus Reviews
Apr 6, 2021 · Three decades of South African sociopolitical history are woven into a saga of loss and missed opportunity that upends a dysfunctional Afrikaner family living outside Pretoria. Rachel Swart has just died of cancer. Her husband, Manie, and three children, Anton, Astrid, and Amor, are all walloped by different incarnations of grief.
The Promise: A Novel Summary & Study Guide - BookRags.com
This Study Guide consists of approximately 44 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Promise.
The Promise - Damon Galgut - Google Books
Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa;...
The Promise - Damon Galgut - Google Books
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...
Book Review: The Promise by Damon Galgut - BookBrowse
Feb 2, 2022 · Damon Galgut's Booker Prize-winning novel, The Promise, opens with a death; Rachel Swart is leaving behind her husband Manie and their three children. As she lays dying, she insists Manie give her long-time maid, Salome, the Lombard place, a ramshackle house on their property in which the servant has lived most of her life.
A Family at Odds Reveals a Nation in the Throes | The ... - The New Yorker
Apr 12, 2021 · Damon Galgut’s novel “The Promise” explores the betrayals of South Africa through a perfectly pitched domestic drama, James Wood writes.
The Promise by Damon Galgut - Bookclubs
Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life’s unfulfilled potential; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life ...