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   Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor and The Impostor.

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   Damon Galgut has 23 books on Goodreads with 146696 ratings. Damon Galgut’s most popular book is The Stranger.

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   Apr 6, 2021 · Damon Galgut's examines the disintegration of the dysfunctional privileged white Swart family in South Africa, living on a farm outside Pretoria, over a period of over 3 decades.

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   Damon Galgut (born 12 November 1963) is a South African novelist and playwright. He was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel The Promise, having previously been shortlisted for the award in 2003 and 2010.

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   Jun 17, 2021 · The Promise won the Booker Prize in 2021. Brutal emotional truths hit home in Damon Galgut’s deft, powerful story of a diminished family and a troubled land.

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   The Promise is a 2021 novel by South African novelist Damon Galgut, published in May 2021, by Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa. It was published by Europa Editions in the US and by Chatto & Windus in the UK. The novel was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize, making Galgut the third South African to win the Prize.

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   Who is Damon Galgut?

   • The Imposter was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He lives in Cape Town. Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor and The Impostor.

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   What happens in the promise of Damon Galgut?

   • The Promise is hard and dark and in Damon Galgut there is no trace of sentimentality. Death in the family… Funeral rites… The last journey… The dead depart and the living are left behind… The living with their sympathies and enmities… Their loves and hates… Their expectations and troubles… Their needs and pleasures…

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   What are some quotes by Damon Galgut?

   • Quotes by Damon Galgut (?) “If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.” “A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made.

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   Is Galgut a good book?

   • Galgut is anything but didactic and manipulative, leaving his readers to learn these lessons on their own as we sift through the personal wreckage of a political history of systemic dispossession and marginalization.

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9. www.nytimes.com › review › damon-galgut-promiseA Family, and a Nation Under Apartheid, Tears at the Seams

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   Apr 15, 2021 · For three decades the South African writer Damon Galgut has been assessing his country through scrutiny of its white people. His prior novels include the Booker Prize finalist “The Good...