The Promise - Damon Galgut - 2021 (Historical Fiction) [Audiobook] (miok)

The Promise - Damon Galgut - 2021



By: Damon Galgut
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 06-17-21
Language: English
Categories: Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo



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Winner of the Booker Prize 2021.

This audiobook includes bonus content of Damon Galgut in conversation with Ted Hodgkinson, Head of Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre.

There is nothing unusual or remarkable about the Swart family, oh no, they resemble the family from the next farm and the one beyond that, just an ordinary bunch of white South Africans, and if you don't believe it then listen to us speak....

The many voices of The Promise tell a story in four snapshots, each one centered on a family funeral, each one happening in a different decade. In the background, a different president is in power, and a different spirit hangs over the country, while in the foreground the family fights over what they call their farm, on a worthless piece of land outside Pretoria.

Over large jumps in time, people get older, faces and laws and lives all change, while a brother and sister circle around a promise made long ago and never kept....

©2021 Damon Galgut (P)2021 Penguin Audio

Critic Reviews

"Astonishing." (Colm Tóibín)

"Gorgeous and pleasurable." (Tessa Hadley)

"The most important book of the last 10 years." (Edmund White)





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