Recipients traditionally see a huge spike in sales. Damon Galgut’s The Promise is tonight, Wednesday 3 November, named winner of the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction. Former winners include Iris Murdoch, Salman Rushdie and Hilary Mantel. The Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Hardcover Apby Damon Galgut (Author) 4,540 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. The Booker Prize winner receives £50,000 - over $68,000. The Promise is an incendiary testament of thirty-one years of contemporary South African history, viewed through the micro-lens of a dwindling white family. 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. I'm fascinated as a writer by the edge of the map by things that are not said.' '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. The Promise, set in South Africa during the countrys transition. 'It occurred to me that it would be a novel and interesting way of approaching a family saga,' the author explained. The Promise by Damon Galgut has been named the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction.

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