![]() ![]() ![]() Recipients traditionally see a huge spike in sales. Former winners include Iris Murdoch, Salman Rushdie and Hilary Mantel. The Booker Prize winner receives £50,000 - over $68,000. With an almost deceptive narrative economy, it offers moving insights into generational divides meditates on what makes a fulfilling life - and how to process death and explores the capacious metaphorical implications of 'promise' in relation to modern South Africa." ![]() On each reading we felt that the book grew. ![]() The chair of this year's panel of Booker judges, Maya Jasanoff, described the selection in a statement: " The Promise astonished us from the outset as a penetrating and incredibly well-constructed account of a white South African family navigating the end of apartheid and its aftermath. I'm fascinated as a writer by the edge of the map by things that are not said." "If the only thing you had was a small window that opened on to these four funerals and you didn't get the full trajectory of the family story, as a reader you'd have to fill in those gaps yourself. "It occurred to me that it would be a novel and interesting way of approaching a family saga," the author explained. South African novelist and playwright Damon Galgut has won the Booker Prize for his novel The Promise, a multi-generational, multi-voice saga set in Pretoria, that starts in 1986 with a promise made by a white South African family to their black housekeeper and follows the fallout of this moment across 40 years. ![]()
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