The Promise: SIGNED & DATED FIRST UK SOFT BACK PRINTING

Galgut, Damon

ISBN 10: 1529113873 / ISBN 13: 9781529113877

Published by Vintage, London, 2022

About this Item

A new copy of the 1st UK paperback issue in fine condition. Signed by the author directly to the title page and not via a bookplate: 'Damon Galgut 29 May 2022'. Signed by the author after his event at the 2022 Hay Literature Festival. Seller Inventory # 008868

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Promise: SIGNED & DATED FIRST UK SOFT ...

Publisher: Vintage, London

Publication Date: 2022

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021

One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story.

'A moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth Day

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

On a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least their treatment of the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. Salome was to be given her own house, her own land...yet somehow, that vow is carefully ignored.

As each decade passes, and the family assemble again, one question hovers over them. Can you ever escape the repercussions of a broken promise?


'A tour de force... A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh' Booker Judges, 2021

'Astonishing' Colm Tóibín

'Utterly compelling' Patrick Gale

About the Author:

DAMON GALGUT is the author of nine novels. He won the Booker Prize 2021 for The Promise, having been shortlisted for the prize twice before (The Good Doctor and In A Strange Room). He lives and works in Cape Town.