The Promise ***Signed by Author*** ***Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize***

Galgut, Damon

ISBN 10: 1784744069 / ISBN 13: 9781784744069

Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd, London, 2021

About this Item

First Edition / Third Print (number line on copyright page 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4). Hardback copy in black boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 293pp. Signed by author in black ink to title page. Small split to top rear edge of spine (happened in warehouse). (46/3).

Seller Inventory # ABE-1636882309145

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Promise ***Signed by Author*** ***Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize***
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784744069
• ISBN 13: 9781784744069
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A masterpiece of a family in crisis from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut

'Astonishing' Colm Tóibín

'A literary masterpiece' Sarah Hall

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.

The narrator's eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams; deliciously lethal in its observation. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title.

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.

'Gorgeous and pleasurable' Tessa Hadley

'The most important book of the last ten years' Edmund White

'Simply: you must read it' Claire Messud