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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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   • The Promise is Galgut’s first novel in seven years, and it sees him return to more familiar terrain. A family saga that moves from the 1980s to the present, it’s a complex, ambitious and brilliant work — one that provides Galgut’s fullest exploration yet of the poisonous legacy of apartheid.

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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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   How does Galgut describe the promise?

   • In outline, The Promise may sound somewhat schematic, but that isn’t the effect when one reads it. Galgut describes his characters with rare assurance and skill, conjuring them to life in a narrative voice that moves restlessly from character to character, inhabiting each consciousness for just a few lines before moving on to the next person.

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   • In a rave review for Harper's Magazine, Claire Messud called Galgut an "extraordinary" novelist, writing, "Like other remarkable novels, it is uniquely itself, and greater than the sum of its parts. The Promise evokes when you reach the final page, a profound interior shift that is all but physical.

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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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   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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   Apr 6, 2021 · Forster's classic book about who will inherit a house serves as the structure for Galgut's new novel “The Promise”, but it's set in South Africa in the years immediately before and after Apartheid.

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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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   The Promise is a 2021 novel by South African novelist Damon Galgut, published in May 2021, by Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa. [1] It was published by Europa Editions in the US [ 2 ] and by Chatto & Windus in the UK.

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   Feb 2, 2022 · The Promise is Galgut's ninth novel and his first to be awarded the Booker Prize, although two previous works were shortlisted for it (2003's The Good Doctor and In a Strange Room in 2010).

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8. www.nytimes.com › review › damon-galgut-promiseA Family, and a Nation Under Apartheid, Tears at the Seams

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   Apr 15, 2021 · Galgut’s new work, “The Promise,” studies the Swart family, descendants of Voortrekker settlers, clinging to their farm amid tumultuous social and political change — “just an ordinary ...

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9. www.the-tls.co.uk › literature › fictionThe Promise by Damon Galgut book review - TLS

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   In The Promise, winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, Damon Galgut portrays a family cursed by greed in a nation betrayed by corruption. After the death of their father Manie, the Swart siblings have gathered at the family farm near Pretoria. A dove flies into the glass door of the dining.

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    Jun 16, 2021 · A family saga that moves from the 1980s to the present, it’s a complex, ambitious and brilliant work — one that provides Galgut’s fullest exploration yet of the poisonous legacy of apartheid ...