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Imprint: Chatto & Windus
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Published: 17/06/2021
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ISBN: 9781784744069
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Length: 304 Pages
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Dimensions: 222mm x 29mm x 144mm
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Weight: 422g
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RRP: £16.99
The Promise
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 and a BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick
**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021**
'A tour de force... A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh' Booker Judges 2021
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. 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. After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled.
In this story of a diminished family, sharp and tender emotional truths hit home. Confident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at its finest.
'Damon Galgut is the most worthy winner of the Booker Prize we've seen for many years...The book trembles in the hand with its political relevance' Rose Tremain, New Statesman
** A NEW STATESMAN , OBSERVER, GUARDIAN , SUNDAY TIMES AND i BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021**
**ONE OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S 75 BEST BOOKS OF 2021**
'Astonishing' Colm Tóibín
'A masterpiece - one of the best books I have read in the past decade... A moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth Day
'This is so obviously one of the best novels of the year' The Times
'Utterly compelling' Patrick Gale
'Gorgeous and pleasurable' Tessa Hadley
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Imprint: Chatto & Windus
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Published: 17/06/2021
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ISBN: 9781784744069
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Length: 304 Pages
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Dimensions: 222mm x 29mm x 144mm
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Weight: 422g
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RRP: £16.99
Reviews
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A superb novel; a nuanced, sad, hilarious portrait of a family and a country
PAULA HAWKINS
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This story was so powerful, the writing so strong and supple... What an achievement
CLARE CHAMBERS
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A moving, brilliantly told family epic . . . darkly comic . . . phenomenally good
ELIZABETH DAY
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Layered, clever...with a gripping story
CLAIRE FULLER, Daily Mail, Books of the Year
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A brilliant book told over four decades and four funerals . . . These are characters dancing on the edge of ruin . . . Intoxicating
ANNA HOPE
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Astonishing . . . about fate and loss, about three siblings and land, a promise made a broken
COLM TOIBIN
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A remarkable tale of four generations of one South African family and of the country itself... No wonder it won the Booker
Observer, Books of the Year
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Vivid and suggestive, moving and often very funny
Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
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Outstanding . . . Gripping . . . There is also plenty of unexpected comedy
BBC News
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Brilliant... Rarely have I had such a strong sense, while reading a novel, that I myself was there, in the room with the characters
Financial Times
