Webb10 apr. 2024 · Fiction – Kindle edition; Bloomsbury Circus; 320 pages; 2024. Winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2024 and shortlisted for a slew of other awards, Louise Kennedy’s Trespasses is the tale of a doomed love affair set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. Every second person in the world seems to have read it — … WebbThe Promise captivated booksellers and our customers alike with its riveting portrayal of a family in crisis living in a rapidly changing South Africa. Set during four funerals across …
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Webb28 feb. 2024 · The Promise, Galgut’s eighth published novel, is the work of a novelist at the peak of his powers.It traces the lives of an Afrikaner family, the Swarts, over 31 years and four funerals, from a time before the end of apartheid to well beyond it, and it turns on a deathbed promise to transfer the ownership of a small house from the Swarts to their … WebbHis ninth novel, The Promise, is on the 2024 Booker shortlist. Galgut is a multi-award-winning author, and two films have been made of his book The Quarry. He grew up in Pretoria, where The Promise is set, and now lives in Cape Town. When asked why he became a writer, he reveals he had lymphoma as a child, during which time he ‘learned to pine cones and fire
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Webb18 aug. 2024 · Damon Galgut's magnificent novel evokes a hot and cruel and claustrophobic world, in which sex and death are never far from the surface. Publisher: … Webb5 nov. 2024 · T he South African writer Damon Galgut was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize this week for his novel The Promise, which confronts the racist history of his native country through the story... Webb3 nov. 2024 · Damon Galgut in London last month. He is this year’s Booker Prize winner for his novel “The Promise.”. Tolga Akmen/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. By Alexandra Alter. Nov. 3, 2024 ... pine cones and holly berries sheet music