The Promise
South African novelist, born 1963. Won the Booker Prize in 2021.
The Promise is a 2021 novel by Damon Galgut. It won the Booker Prize in 2021.
In family saga
On 2 of the 10 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Damon Galgut
- First published
- 2021
- Length
- 304 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize winner, 2021
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Family saga, Political, Religion and faith
Is The Promise worth reading?
2 of the 10 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Booker Prize and The Big Jubilee Read (BBC Arts and The Reading Agency).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 2021) | Winner | See the list |
| The Big Jubilee Read (BBC Arts and The Reading Agency, 2022) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of The Promise
The edition we link to is the Vintage paperback (2022), 304 pages.
- Publisher
- Vintage (paperback, 2022)
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN
- 9781529113877
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Promise
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 50% of the points available on prize lists, against 17% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 0% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like The Promise
If you liked The Promise, try White Teeth, The Corrections or Middlesex.
