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The Promise
- Author
- Damon Galgut
- Narrator
- Peter Noble
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 17 June 2021
- Run Time
- 10 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
** 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
Critics Review
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A superb novel; a nuanced, sad, hilarious portrait of a family and a country
PAULA HAWKINS
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This story was so powerful, the writing so strong and supple... What an achievement
CLARE CHAMBERS
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A moving, brilliantly told family epic . . . darkly comic . . . phenomenally good
ELIZABETH DAY
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Layered, clever...with a gripping story
Daily Mail, Books of the Year
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A brilliant book told over four decades and four funerals . . . These are characters dancing on the edge of ruin . . . Intoxicating
ANNA HOPE
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Astonishing . . . about fate and loss, about three siblings and land, a promise made a broken
COLM TOIBIN
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A remarkable tale of four generations of one South African family and of the country itself... No wonder it won the Booker
Observer, Books of the Year
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Vivid and suggestive, moving and often very funny
Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
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Outstanding . . . Gripping . . . There is also plenty of unexpected comedy
BBC News
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Brilliant... Rarely have I had such a strong sense, while reading a novel, that I myself was there, in the room with the characters
Financial Times
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Details
- Author
- Damon Galgut
- Narrator
- Peter Noble
- Duration
- 10 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 June 2021
- ISBN
- 9781473593077
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Family saga / generational saga fiction, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: sense of place, Historical fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. ** 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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