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   Booker winner Damon Galgut: ‘My family were not raging racists, but they were fairly comfortable with the set-up’. After two previous shortlist disappointments, the South African author has...

2. www.harvardreview.org › book-review › the-promiseThe Promise - Harvard Review

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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.

3. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2021/04/19A Family at Odds Reveals a Nation in the Throes

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   Apr 12, 2021 · Damon Galgut’s novel “The Promise” explores the betrayals of South Africa through a perfectly pitched domestic drama, James Wood writes.

4. www.ft.com › content › 43cf6632-858a-4419-a573-2dThe Promise by Damon Galgut — a poisonous legacy

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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.

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5. www.penguin.co.uk › articles › 2021The Promise by Damon Galgut: read the first chapter

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   Nov 2, 2021 · The Promise, winner of the Booker Prize 2021, is Damon Galgut’s powerful story of a family, a country, and the failed promises that destroy them both. Read the first chapter here.

6. www.penguin.co.uk › articles › 2021Lightbulb moments: Damon Galgut on writing The Promise

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   Nov 2, 2021 · The author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel The Promise on how cinema, theatre, and language all coalesced in his novel’s account of a white South African family’s downfall.

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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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   Who is Damon Galgut?

   • Damon Galgut is the author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel The Promise. In this week's interview, he discusses how cinema, theatre, and language came together in his novel's account of a white South African family's downfall. Damon Galgut won the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel The Promise.

   Lightbulb moments: Damon Galgut on writing The Promise

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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.

   The Promise by Damon Galgut — a poisonous legacy - Financial Times

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   How does Galgut tell a story?

   • As the Portuguese novelist José Saramago does, Galgut outsources his storytelling, handing off a phrase or an insight to an indistinct community of what seem to be wise elders, who then produce an ironically platitudinous or proverbial commentary. After describing how Ma’s ghost is visiting the farm, Galgut adds, “How would you know she is a ghost?

   A Family at Odds Reveals a Nation in the Throes

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   Why is Galgut so close to his characters?

   • Galgut is at once very close to his troubled characters and somewhat ironically distant, as if the novel were written in two time signatures, fast and slower. And, miraculously, this narrative distance does not alienate our intimacy but emerges as a different form of knowing.

   A Family at Odds Reveals a Nation in the Throes

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   Did Damon Galgut ever think he could win 'the promise'?

   • He talks to Martin Chilton about growing up in a racist and often dangerous country, his dark childhood, and the fleetingness of time “I didn’t ever think I had a realistic chance of winning, because The Promise is just too odd a book,” says Damon Galgut.

   Booker winner Damon Galgut: ‘My family were not raging racists, but

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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 ...