![]() 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. 'The Promise by Damon Galgut is an exceptional book, beautifully written with characters you come to care deeply about.'-BBC 'The unusual narrative style balances a kind of Faulknerian exuberance with a Nabokovian precision and is a testament to the flourishing of the novel in the 21st century. "It occurred to me that it would be a novel and interesting way of approaching a family saga," the author explained. ![]()
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