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The Promise : A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
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The Promise : A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Hardcover - 2021

by Galgut, Damon

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  • Title The Promise : A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
  • Author Galgut, Damon
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Europa Editions, Incorporated
  • Date 2021-04-06
  • Features Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 40561341-75
  • ISBN 9781609456580 / 1609456580
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.9 x 1.2 in (21.59 x 14.99 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Brothers and sisters
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.914

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First Edition Identification

The Promise is Galgut’s ninth novel and first in seven years. It follows a white South African family during their country’s transition out of apartheid through the lens of four funerals over the course of four decades. 

Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/01/2021, Page 19
  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/2021, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/22/2021, Page 0

About the author

Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria. His 2003 novel The Good Doctor won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region) and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In a Strange Room (Europa, 2010) was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2021, Galgut won the Booker Prize for The Promise (Europa, 2021). In 2013, Galgut was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

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