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     • While The Promise works on a number of levels thematically, it is peopled with flawed but fascinating characters and evocative of particular times and places. But it is also verbally inventive, sometimes startling in its revelations and, most of all, it is a joy to read.
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   • The Promise by Damon Galgut is a novel with an overall rating of Rave based on 13 book reviews. Don’t look for much hope in this novel ... Galgut in The Promise is a gleeful satirist, mordantly skewering his characters’ fecklessness and hypocrisy.

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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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   • 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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   What does Galgut say about the family?

   • Galgut’s direction is ever-present, intruding upon events to offer moral judgements, or to muddy the waters until objective truth is blurred. “The family has returned,” he writes, “or maybe they have never left.” He picks people up and sets them down again. Perhaps they were in the living room, or the lounge.

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   Apr 6, 2021 · 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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   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 · Reader Reviews. BookBrowse: Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, The Promise chronicles post-apartheid South Africa through the lens of one family's decline. 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.

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   Apr 15, 2021 · THE PROMISE By Damon Galgut. For three decades the South African writer Damon Galgut has been assessing his country through scrutiny of its white people.

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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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    Apr 6, 2021 · The Promise by Damon Galgut has an overall rating of Rave based on 13 book reviews.