The Promise

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story.. **AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME**. 'A moving brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth Day. 'Superb' Paula Hawkins. 'Gripping' Daily Mail. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________. 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?____________________________. 'A tour de force... A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh' Booker Judges 2021. 'So powerful' Clare Chambers. 'Astonishing' Colm Tóibín. 'Bursting with life' The Times. 'Utterly compelling' Patrick Gale. Shortlisted for the 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize. ** A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES GUARDIAN OBSERVER DAILY TELEGRAPH i AND NEW STATESMAN **|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.|A superb novel; a nuanced sad hilarious portrait of a family and a country|This story was so powerful the writing so strong and supple... What an achievement|A moving brilliantly told family epic . . . darkly comic . . . phenomenally good|Layered clever...with a gripping story|A brilliant book told over four decades and four funerals . . . These are characters dancing on the edge of ruin . . . Intoxicating|Astonishing . . . about fate and loss about three siblings and land a promise made a broken|A remarkable tale of four generations of one South African family and of the country itself... No wonder it won the Booker|Vivid and suggestive moving and often very funny|Outstanding . . . Gripping . . . There is also plenty of unexpected comedy|Brilliant... Rarely have I had such a strong sense while reading a novel that I myself was there in the room with the characters|WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story.'A moving brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth DayTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn 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?'A tour de force... A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh' Booker Judges 2021'Astonishing' Colm Tóibín'Utterly compelling' Patrick Gale