Damon Galgut

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1) The Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

Author

Galgut, Damon

Publisher

Europa Editions

Pub. Date

2021

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE

A modern family saga written in gorgeous prose by three-time Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut.

Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa;

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2) The promise

Author

Galgut, Damon

Publisher

Europa Editions

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

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"A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the...

3) The quarry

Author

Galgut, Damon

Publisher

Grove

Pub. Date

2005.

Language

English

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A thrilling parable of death and deception from the Booker-shortlisted Galgut. On a lonely stretch of road a man picks up a hitchhiker. The driver is a minister on his way to a new rural congregation. The passenger, a fugitive. When the minister realizes this, the fugitive kills him. He assumes his vestments and identity, only to discover that one of his first duties as the new minister is to preside over his victim's funeral. As the fugitive and...