The Promise Book Damon Galgut. This bravura novel about the undoing of a. With the promise, galgut has returned to his native soil with a work that traces the cumulative misfortunes of an afrikaner family across three decades of national transition and turmoil.
Twice shortlisted for the booker prize, the keenly observant galgut (arctic summer) offers a deeply affecting family saga spanning decades of upheaval in south africa. This bravura novel about the undoing of a. He lives in cape town, south africa.
He is an essential writer.”—garth greenwell, author of cleanness and what belongs to you
Thematically and stylistically this novel echoes his earlier work, but this ambitious, original effort rises to another level, casting a critical eye at his. The jrb presents an exclusive excerpt from the promise, the new novel by damon galgut, which will be released in the united kingdom in april; Galgut’s latest is ‘obviously one of the best novels of the year’. “the promise recalls the great achievements of modernism in its imagistic brilliance, its caustic disenchantment, its relentless research into the human.