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.
A superb novel; a nuanced, sad, hilarious portrait of a family and
a country
*PAULA HAWKINS*
This story was so powerful, the writing so strong and supple...
What an achievement
*CLARE CHAMBERS*
A moving, brilliantly told family epic . . . darkly comic . . .
phenomenally good
*ELIZABETH DAY*
Layered, clever...with a gripping story
*Daily Mail, Books of the Year*
A brilliant book told over four decades and four funerals . . .
These are characters dancing on the edge of ruin . . .
Intoxicating
*ANNA HOPE*
Astonishing . . . about fate and loss, about three siblings and
land, a promise made a broken
*COLM TOIBIN*
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*
Vivid and suggestive, moving and often very funny
*Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year*
Outstanding . . . Gripping . . . There is also plenty of unexpected
comedy
*BBC News*
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*
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