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Promise : A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) by Damon Galgut (2021, Hardcover)
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PublisherEuropa Editions, Incorporated
ISBN-101609456580
ISBN-139781609456580
eBay Product ID (ePID)10050404016
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Book TitlePromise : a Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSagas, Family Life
Publication Year2021
GenreFiction
AuthorDamon Galgut
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.2 in
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LCCN2022-279386
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Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Galgut extends his extraordinary corpus with a rich story of family, history, and grief."--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "This tour-de-force unleashes a searing portrait of a damaged family and a troubled country in need of healing."--Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "The novel carries within it the literary spirits of Woolf and Joyce [ . . . ] To praise the novel in its particulars--for its seriousness; for its balance of formal freedom and elegance; for its humor, its precision, its human truth--seems inadequate and partial. Simply: you must read it."--Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine "Time and again in Mr. Galgut's fiction, South Africa materializes, vast, astonishing, resonant. And on this vastness, he stages intimate dramas that have the force of ancient myth."--Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal "The Promise is the most important book of the last ten years."--Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story and A Saint from Texas "The Promise's power and immediacy merge to create an outstanding novel of its time."--Joan Bakewell, author of All the Nice Girls and The Centre of the Bed "The Promise recalls the great achievements of modernism in its imagistic brilliance, its caustic disenchantment, its relentless research into the human. For formal innovation and moral seriousness, Damon Galgut is very nearly without peer. He is an essential writer."--Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You "Both tender and brutal, The Promise brilliantly illuminates how both a small family and a large world endure--or don't endure. I will remember this beautifully devastating book, its enigmatic heroine, for a long time."--Peter Cameron, author of What Happens at Night "Galgut understands the complexities of the human heart which he reveals with the finest delicacy. This is an emotionally powerful and thrilling novel that haunts one long after it has been laid down." --Gabriel Byrne, author of Walking With Ghosts and Pictures in My Head "If possible, The Promise packs yet more of a punch than Galgut's previous novels. Fuelled by sex and death, this is a South African Götterdämmerung charting a white family's inexorable decline from significance and power. Its indignation at its morally bankrupt central characters is leavened with languid comedy, as though Galgut had collaborated with Tennessee Williams. The effect is utterly compelling."--Patrick Gale, author of Notes from an Exhibition and A Place Called Winter "If there is a posterity, Galgut will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa's transition [ . . . ] in every way the equal of J. M. Coetzee."--Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart Praise for Damon Galgut "Written in spare, controlled prose, Damon Galgut's writing has a powerful cumulative effect that is on one level hard and comfortless, yet somehow also tender and humane."--The New York Times on In a Strange Room "It's no wonder that the South African novelist Damon Galgut has won a place on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize...a gripping read, laced throughout with powerful emotional truth and Damon Galgut's extraordinary vision."--The Independent on In a Strange Room "Galgut spares no details and his prose, suspended between horror and comedy, is almost unbearably powerful."--The Guardian on In a Strange Room "In spare, declarative prose, Galgut spins a brisk and bracing story."--The New Yorker on The Good Doctor "Like Graham Greene's work, this quiet, affecting novel will attract those haunted by the shadow of colonialism."--Publishers Weekly on The Good Doctor, "Galgut extends his extraordinary corpus with a rich story of family, history, and grief."--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "This tour-de-force unleashes a searing portrait of a damaged family and a troubled country in need of healing."--Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "The novel carries within it the literary spirits of Woolf and Joyce [ . . . ] To praise the novel in its particulars--for its seriousness; for its balance of formal freedom and elegance; for its humor, its precision, its human truth--seems inadequate and partial. Simply: you must read it."--Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine "The Promise is the most important book of the last ten years."--Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story and A Saint from Texas "The Promise's power and immediacy merge to create an outstanding novel of its time."--Joan Bakewell, author of All the Nice Girls and The Centre of the Bed "The Promise recalls the great achievements of modernism in its imagistic brilliance, its caustic disenchantment, its relentless research into the human. For formal innovation and moral seriousness, Damon Galgut is very nearly without peer. He is an essential writer."--Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You "Both tender and brutal, The Promise brilliantly illuminates how both a small family and a large world endure--or don't endure. I will remember this beautifully devastating book, its enigmatic heroine, for a long time."--Peter Cameron, author of What Happens at Night "Galgut understands the complexities of the human heart which he reveals with the finest delicacy. This is an emotionally powerful and thrilling novel that haunts one long after it has been laid down." --Gabriel Byrne, author of Walking With Ghosts and Pictures in My Head "If possible, The Promise packs yet more of a punch than Galgut's previous novels. Fuelled by sex and death, this is a South African Götterdämmerung charting a white family's inexorable decline from significance and power. Its indignation at its morally bankrupt central characters is leavened with languid comedy, as though Galgut had collaborated with Tennessee Williams. The effect is utterly compelling."--Patrick Gale, author of Notes from an Exhibition and A Place Called Winter "If there is a posterity, Galgut will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa's transition [ . . . ] in every way the equal of J. M. Coetzee."--Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart Praise for Damon Galgut "Written in spare, controlled prose, Damon Galgut's writing has a powerful cumulative effect that is on one level hard and comfortless, yet somehow also tender and humane."--The New York Times on In a Strange Room "It's no wonder that the South African novelist Damon Galgut has won a place on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize...a gripping read, laced throughout with powerful emotional truth and Damon Galgut's extraordinary vision."--The Independent on In a Strange Room "Galgut spares no details and his prose, suspended between horror and comedy, is almost unbearably powerful."--The Guardian on In a Strange Room "In spare, declarative prose, Galgut spins a brisk and bracing story."--The New Yorker on The Good Doctor "Like Graham Greene's work, this quiet, affecting novel will attract those haunted by the shadow of colonialism."--Publishers Weekly on The Good Doctor, PRAISE FOR DAMON GALGUT For In a Strange Room "Written in spare, controlled prose, Damon Galgut's writing has a powerful cumulative effect that is on one level hard and comfortless, yet somehow also tender and humane."--The New York Times "It's no wonder that the South African novelist Damon Galgut has won a place on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize...a gripping read, laced throughout with powerful emotional truth and Damon Galgut's extraordinary vision."--The Independent "Galgut spares no details and his prose, suspended between horror and comedy, is almost unbearably powerful."--The Guardian For The Good Doctor "In spare, declarative prose, Galgut spins a brisk and bracing story."--The New Yorker "Like Graham Greene's work, this quiet, affecting novel will attract those haunted by the shadow of colonialism."--Publishers Weekly "If there is a posterity, Galgut will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa's transition... in every way the equal of J. M. Coetzee"--Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart, "Galgut extends his extraordinary corpus with a rich story of family, history, and grief."--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "This tour-de-force unleashes a searing portrait of a damaged family and a troubled country in need of healing."--Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "The Promise is the most important book of the last ten years."--Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story and A Saint from Texas "The Promise's power and immediacy merge to create an outstanding novel of its time."--Joan Bakewell, author of All the Nice Girls and The Centre of the Bed "The Promise recalls the great achievements of modernism in its imagistic brilliance, its caustic disenchantment, its relentless research into the human. For formal innovation and moral seriousness, Damon Galgut is very nearly without peer. He is an essential writer."--Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You "Both tender and brutal, The Promise brilliantly illuminates how both a small family and a large world endure - or don't endure. I will remember this beautifully devastating book, its enigmatic heroine, for a long time." -- Peter Cameron, author of What Happens at Night "Galgut understands the complexities of the human heart which he reveals with the finest delicacy. This is an emotionally powerful and thrilling novel that haunts one long after it has been laid down." --Gabriel Byrne, author of Walking With Ghosts and Pictures in My Head "If possible, The Promise packs yet more of a punch than Galgut's previous novels. Fuelled by sex and death, this is a South African Götterdämmerung charting a white family's inexorable decline from significance and power. Its indignation at its morally bankrupt central characters is leavened with languid comedy, as though Galgut had collaborated with Tennessee Williams. The effect is utterly compelling."--Patrick Gale, author of Notes from an Exhibition and A Place Called Winter "If there is a posterity, Galgut will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa's transition... in every way the equal of J. M. Coetzee"--Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart Praise for Damon Galgut "Written in spare, controlled prose, Damon Galgut's writing has a powerful cumulative effect that is on one level hard and comfortless, yet somehow also tender and humane."--The New York Times on In a Strange Room "It's no wonder that the South African novelist Damon Galgut has won a place on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize...a gripping read, laced throughout with powerful emotional truth and Damon Galgut's extraordinary vision."--The Independent on In a Strange Room "Galgut spares no details and his prose, suspended between horror and comedy, is almost unbearably powerful."--The Guardian on In a Strange Room "In spare, declarative prose, Galgut spins a brisk and bracing story."--The New Yorker on The Good Doctor "Like Graham Greene's work, this quiet, affecting novel will attract those haunted by the shadow of colonialism."--Publishers Weekly on The Good Doctor, "Galgut extends his extraordinary corpus with a rich story of family, history, and grief."--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "This tour-de-force unleashes a searing portrait of a damaged family and a troubled country in need of healing."--Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Galgut''s compelling new novel blends characters and history and intricate themes to reveal the devastating impacts of white privilege and institutional racism...The Promise is timely, relevant, and thematically significant."--Booklist (Starred Review) "The novel carries within it the literary spirits of Woolf and Joyce... To praise the novel in its particulars--for its seriousness; for its balance of formal freedom and elegance; for its humor, its precision, its human truth--seems inadequate and partial. Simply: you must read it."--Claire Messud, Harper''s Magazine "Galgut''s novel most closely resembles the work of predecessors like Woolf and Faulkner. The novel''s beautifully peculiar narration aerates and complicates this fatal family fable, and turns plot into deep meditation... Galgut is wonderfully, Woolfianly adept."--James Wood, The New Yorker "Time and again in Mr. Galgut''s fiction, South Africa materializes, vast, astonishing, resonant. And on this vastness, he stages intimate dramas that have the force of ancient myth."--Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal "The Promise offers all the virtues of realist fiction, plus some extras. A reader can shrug it all off and focus on the family''s story, or take pleasure in a brash writer''s narrative norm-breaking... In comparison [to Coetzee], Galgut is a gleeful satirist, mordantly skewering his characters'' fecklessness and hypocrisy."--Rand Richards Cooper, The New York Times Book Review "The Promise is the most important book of the last ten years."--Edmund White, author of A Boy''s Own Story and A Saint from Texas "The Promise is close to a folk tale or the retelling of a myth about fate and loss... The story has an astonishing sense of depth, as though the characters were imagined over time, with slow tender care."--Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn "The Promise''s power and immediacy merge to create an outstanding novel of its time."--Joan Bakewell, author of All the Nice Girls and The Centre of the Bed "The Promise recalls the great achievements of modernism in its imagistic brilliance, its caustic disenchantment, its relentless research into the human. For formal innovation and moral seriousness, Damon Galgut is very nearly without peer. He is an essential writer."--Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You "Both tender and brutal, The Promise brilliantly illuminates how both a small family and a large world endure--or don''t endure. I will remember this beautifully devastating book, its enigmatic heroine, for a long time."--Peter Cameron, author of What Happens at Night "Galgut understands the complexities of the human heart which he reveals with the finest delicacy. This is an emotionally powerful and thrilling novel that haunts one long after it has been laid down." --Gabriel Byrne, author of Walking With Ghosts and Pictures in My Head "If possible, The Promise packs yet more of a punch than Galgut''s previous novels. Fuelled by sex and death, this is a South African Götterdämmerung charting a white family''s inexorable decline from significance and power. Its indignation at its morally bankrupt central characters is leavened with languid comedy, as though Galgut had collaborated with Tennessee Williams. The effect is utterly compelling."--Patrick Gale, author of Notes from an Exhibition and A Place Called Winter "If there is a posterity, Galgut will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa''s transition... in every way the equal of J. M. Coetzee."--Rian Malan, author of My Traitor''s Heart
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SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE A modern family saga written in gorgeous prose by three-time Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled potential; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over three decades, the dwindling family reflects the atmosphere of its country--one of resentment, renewal, and, ultimately, hope. The Promise is an epic drama that unfurls against the unrelenting march of national history, sure to please current fans and attract many new ones. "Simply: you must read it."--Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine
LC Classification NumberPR9369.3.G28P76 2021
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