![]() ![]() ![]() Galgut began working on a novel centred on a family - “just an ordinary bunch of white South Africans,” he writes - whose matriarch dies of cancer in 1986, when South Africa was convulsing with political unrest. The Promise itself also arrived from a friend, who was telling me how his mother had asked the family to give a certain piece of land to the black woman who had looked after her through her last illness, as it happens in the book.” It sounded like the perfect narrative vehicle for a family saga. It occurred to me that it would be quite an interesting way to tell the story of one particular family. ![]() In Galgut’s words, “The specific form of this book crystallised around a series of anecdotes that a friend told me when we had a semi-drunken lunch, about four family funerals had attended. He got the idea for the novel from a conversation with a friend, who described going to a series of funerals for family members. Listen to this article A Review of Damon Galgut’s The Promise The winner of Booker Prize 2021ĭamon Galgut’s stunning novel ‘The Promise’ charts the decline of a white family during South Africa’s transition out of apartheid. ![]()
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