SA Novel shortlisted for the Booker prize

 

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE SOUTH AFRICA ACQUIRES LITTLE TIGER    space PRESS RELEASE 14 September 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   SA NOVEL SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Damon Galgut’s latest novel, The Promise, has been shortlisted for one of the world’s most prestigious literary prizes, the Booker Prize. The announcement was made during an online event on Tuesday evening.   Two other novels of Galgut, The Good Doctor, and In a Strange Room, have also previously been shortlisted for this prize. Galgut’s South African publisher, Fourie Botha, says: ‘There’s a quiet, burning power in The Promise that takes your breath away; a book about land that can change the moral landscape of our country.’ The Promise is the story of a family, but also of a country, over forty years. In four parts, each one centred on a family funeral in a different decade, the family fights over a piece of land outside Pretoria. In the background, a different president is in power, and a different spirit hangs over the country. At the core of this mesmerising and at times darkly humorous novel is a deathbed promise by a mother that was never kept – a promise overheard by her young daughter Amor. Hailed in the press as one of the world’s finest writers, Galgut published his first novel at seventeen and since then his work has been translated into sixteen languages. Two films were made of his book The Quarry. Locally, his previous novel, Arctic Summer, was awarded the Sunday Times Fiction Prize.   Steve Connolly, CEO of Penguin Random House South Africa, says: “Damon Galgut has kept South African and international readers spellbound with his words for many years. Now, for the third time, his talent has been recognised by the Booker panel of judges by including him in the shortlist for 2021. The Promise takes us through the tensions, prejudices, lies and losses of an “ordinary” family. It is a typically powerful book that often makes you uncomfortable. Yet leaves you feeling buoyed by the sheer beauty of his prose. We are so proud of our long association with Damon as his South African publisher and wish him luck for the final award.” ISBN: 978-1-4152-1058-1 (print) I ISBN: 978-1-4152-1084-0 (e-pub) RECOMMENDED RETAIL PRICE: R290 I CATEGORY: Literary Fiction Author photograph by Marthinus Basson. For interviews, covers and/or author photographs, contact Frieda le Roux at fleroux@penguinrandomhouse.co.za / 021 460 5490. For more information, visit www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za.     CAPE TOWN • TEL +27 (0)21 460 5400 • The Estuaries No 4, Oxbow Crescent, Century Ave, Century City, 7441 MIDRAND • Tel.: +27 (0)11 327 3550 • Unit 12A (ii), Growthpoint Business Park, 162 Tonetti Street, Halfway House Ext 7, Midrand, 1685 VAT REG 4620156200 • Co. REG No 1953/000441/07

 

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