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1. • • The Promise received favourable reviews, with a cumulative "Rave" rating at the review aggregator website Book Marks, based on 13 book reviews from mainstream literary critics.
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   What happens in the promise by Damon Galgut?

   • Damon Galgut's Booker Prize-winning novel, The Promise, opens with a death; Rachel Swart is leaving behind her husband Manie and their three children. As she lays dying, she insists Manie give her long-time maid, Salome, the Lombard place, a ramshackle house on their property in which the servant has lived most of her life.

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   What does Galgut know about the promise?

   • Galgut knows this; the sum of the list signals that there are things that escape the novel’s comprehension. Comprehension has two interlinked meanings in The Promise: understanding and inclusion. Both falter when it comes to Salome and her son Lukas. Galgut’s attempts to enter their thoughts are tentative, subjunctive.

   Marc Mierowsky reviews 'The Promise' by Damon Galgut

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   What is Galgut's plot in South Africa?

   • Galgut's plot serves as an allegory for post-apartheid South Africa, with the unfulfilled promise from the Swart family, who are white, to Salome, who is Black, mirroring what the author sees as a failed promise of reparations made to the nation's Black citizens.

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   Who is Damon Galgut?

   • Confident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at its finest. Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor and The Impostor.

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   Why did Damon Galgut say disgrace is the price?

   • Damon Galgut: Because a lot of my feminist friends were outraged by Disgrace or at least very, very exercised by it. It seems to be the case that he’s saying, this is the price, this is the price of living in the new South Africa, that perhaps you will be violated and you will simply have to accept that, and that is the cost.

   ‘Most of the stories have been told by now, it’s just the

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   Did Daniel Kraus give 'the promise' a fitting finish?

   • The author Daniel Kraus gave it a fitting finish. The Book Review Podcast: Each week, top authors and critics talk about the latest news in the literary world. Listen here. “The Promise,” Damon Galgut’s latest novel, is a portrait of pain and change in South Africa.

   A Family, and a Nation Under Apartheid, Tears at the Seams

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   Mar 17, 2022 · by Damon Galgut. reviewed by Ella Fox-Martens. Somewhere in apartheid Pretoria, 1985, Rachel Swart, a recently re-converted Jewish woman, dies of cancer. On her deathbed, she feverishly forces her Christian, Afrikaans husband to promise to give the maid, Salome, the house where she already lives.

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   Apr 6, 2021 · 45,244 ratings4,727 reviews. The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, 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.

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   Apr 15, 2021 · In comparison, Galgut in “The Promise” is a gleeful satirist, mordantly skewering his characters’ fecklessness and hypocrisy.

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   Feb 2, 2022 · Galgut's plot serves as an allegory for post-apartheid South Africa, with the unfulfilled promise from the Swart family, who are white, to Salome, who is Black, mirroring what the author sees as a failed promise of reparations made to the nation's Black citizens.

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   Jun 18, 2021 · The Promise Damon Galgut Umuzi, 2021. Mark Gevisser: The Promise is one of the most thrilling literary experiences I’ve had in a very long time. I’ve read it twice, once in draft and once between covers, these very handsome covers, and it is quite remarkable in the way it hits on truths—on political truths, on emotional truths—through a ...

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9. www.australianbookreview.com.au › abr-onlineMarc Mierowsky reviews 'The Promise' by Damon Galgut

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   Rachel Swart is in the final decline of a terminal cancer when she extracts a promise from her husband, Manie: he agrees to give their maid Salome the deed to the Lombard Place, a small house on the family’s farm. It is an act of recognition.

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    The Promise by Damon Galgut review — our verdict on the 2021 Booker winner. “One of the world’s great writers,” Edmund White trumpets on the cover of the South African author Damon Galgut’s The Promise. This is no exaggeration.