The Promise: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021
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10 Hours 12 Minutes
Penguin Books LTD
June 2021
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** WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 **
This audiobook includes bonus content of Damon Galgut in conversation with Ted Hodgkinson, Head of Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre.
There is nothing unusual or remarkable about the Swart family, oh no, they resemble the family from the next farm and the one beyond that, just an ordinary bunch of white South Africans, and if you don't believe it then listen to us speak ...
The many voices of The Promise tell a story in four snapshots, each one centered on a family funeral, each one happening in a different decade. In the background, a different president is in power, and a different spirit hangs over the country, while in the foreground the family fights over what they call their farm, on a worthless piece of land outside Pretoria.
Over large jumps in time, people get older, faces and laws and lives all change, while a brother and sister circle around a promise made long ago, and never kept ...
'Astonishing' Colm Tóibín
'Gorgeous and pleasurable' Tessa Hadley
'The most important book of the last ten years' Edmund White
© Damon Galgut 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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Anonymous
Interesting - worth listening to the discussion with the author at the end - but not comfortable listening. The narrator at times sounded like a vicar preaching from the pulpit - every sentence pronounced as if weighing every word full of self importance.
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Louise H.
i loved this book and the performance. It feels like a masterpiece, every single word chosen for its narrative and poetic effect. The modernist twists with frequent unexpected and disconcerting turns is gritty and challenging. I wanted to savour every sentence.
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Ger Faughnan
It took me a while to get into this book but that may have been due to my being distracted. It ended up being one of my favourite books
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Lolo
Another masterpiece by one of my all time favourite authors. Poetic and poignant, strikingly beautiful and bursting with sadness, not unlike the complex country it is set in.
The South African narrator did a sterling job at bringing the work to life.
I’m sad that it ended, for now the wait for Galgut’s next masterwork begins…
