There’s certainly an element of chronicle in the book, a notation of changing circumstances and expectations, though it takes second place to family drama. (The last page might clinch it.) Twenty years later, Damon Galgut’s The Promise has followed this trajectory, with a Booker-shortlisted family narrative that’s also in two minds about its status as a document of historic social change. Coetzee’s Booker Prize-winning Disgrace, in which a narrative of disintegration and one of reconstruction were superimposed on each other, leaving it to the reader to decide which was the lower layer. Thank you.T he appetite for an authoritative portrait of the new South Africa was both catered to and resisted by J.M. We love it when you pin and share our book reviews. Read last week’s review The Lincoln Highway ****Four stars for The Promise by Damon Galgut Thank you for reading my book review The Promise by Damon Galgut. How will this family make their way in the new South Africa and can they find find hope in all their resentment for their family and all that has been lost? This powerful family saga will captivate you as both this family and South Africa navigate a tumultuous and changing ways. The three siblings drift apart only reuniting when funerals call them home. Meanwhile, her elder siblings sister Astrid, resentful to find being beautiful doesn’t always make you happy and Anton the eldest son, bitter about his lost potential. Amor will spend the rest of her days feeling guilty about this unmet promise. Three siblings struggle separately with their individual pasts as they lose touch with each other following the death of the matriarch of the family outside of Pretoria South Africa.Īmor, the youngest, witnesses what she believes is a promise made by her father to her mother as her mother lays dying. How much weight do we put into a unmet promise? This is the premise of Galgut’s Booker Prize winning novel based in South Africa during apartheid.
Booker Prize winner for 2021, here is my book review The Promise by Damon Galgut.
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