A scarce signed & dated uncorrected proof of the acclaimed latest novel from award-winning South African author and playwright Damon Galgut.   Twice previously featured on the Booker Prize Shortlist (2003 for 'The Good Doctor ' and 2010 for 'In A Strange Room '), this book made him a 3-time shortlisted author.  A longstanding favourite for the 2021 Booker Prize, he was confirmed as the winner at a special ceremony on 3 November 2021.




'The Promise ', an uncorrected proof released by Chatto & Windus in London ahead of the planned publication on 17 June 2021, 1st edition thus, standard modern paperback, [viii] + 295 pages.





Signed by the author in black felt pen at the title page, he has also dated this at 20 October 2022 when signing this for the original dealer.


In near fine+ to fine unread condition, no other internal markings or inscriptions, no spine creasing, some light wear to the foot of the spine and to the edges and surface of the wrappers.






** A very rare signed proof.   I can see only 1 other example listed worldwide - which is only signed not signed & dated - with a UK bookdealer on ABEBooks priced at just under £500 **








Discover the Booker Prize-winning literary masterpiece of a family in crisis.






The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria.  The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral.  The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least the failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life.  After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled.



The narrator's eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams; deliciously lethal in its observation.  And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title.



In this story of a diminished family, sharp and tender emotional truths hit home.  Confident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at its finest.












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