The Promise by Damon Galgut $25.75 RRP $32.99 (22% OFF)

Masterful new fiction from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut A taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the ever-diminishing family together, each of the four parts opens with a death and a new decade. The characterisations are razor sharp, the dialogue dramatic, the action gripping. As we traverse the decades, Damon interweaves the story of a disappointed nation from apartheid to Jacob Zuma. About the Author 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 and The Good Doctor. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. In a Strange Room was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Damon Galgut lives in Cape Town.