On each reading we felt that the book grew. Maya Jasanoff, 2021 chair of judges, comments: ‘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 is Galgut’s ninth novel and first in seven years his debut was published when he was just seventeen. The Promise is set in South Africa during the country’s transition out of apartheid, explores the interconnected relationships between the members of a diminishing white family through the sequential lens of four funerals. Congratulations to Damon Galgut who has been named the winner of this year’s Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel, The Promise.
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