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      • 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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  2. Apr 6, 2021 · The Promise. Damon Galgut. 3.86. 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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  3. Dazzling, original, heartfelt and exhilarating, or bleak, depressing, incoherent and unrealistic? What did Kate’s book club make of The Promise, Damon Galgut’s Booker-prize-winning novel, which tells the story of one white South-African family, and the promise made to their black servant, Salome.

  4. 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 bunch of...

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  5. 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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  6. 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.

  7. Oct 31, 2021 · The Promise is a wide-ranging novel that deals with big themes, not least of which is religion, racism, integrity, honour and loyalty. By focusing on the microcosm of a single family, Galgut highlights what has happened to South African society from the 1980s to now.

  8. Damon Galgut has been awarded the Booker Prize for his powerful novel, The Promise, which 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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