Damon Galgut The Promise SIGNED 1st/1st The Booker Prize

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. Signed by Damon Galgut to the title page.

Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. A fine, unread copy of a first edition, first impression hardback in a fine, unclipped dustjacket which has been enclosed in a clear, removable protective cover. Published - Chatto & Windus, 2021.