The Promise - Winner Booker Prize 2021

Discover the Booker Prize-shortlisted literary masterpiece of a family in crisis. 'Astonishing' Colm Toibin The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria.

About the author

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.

Summary

Discover the Booker Prize-shortlisted literary masterpiece of a family in crisis. 'Astonishing' Colm Toibin The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria.

Product details

• Authors: Damon Galgut
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.06.2021
• EAN: 9781784744069
• ISBN: 978-1-78474-406-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 223 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, 20th Century, 21st Century, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Republic of South Africa, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 2000 to c 2009, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Generational sagas