![]() ![]() Maya Jasanoff, chair of the 2021 judges, says: His 2005 novel The Quarry has been adapted into two films. The author, who lives in Cape Town, was previously shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 for The Good Doctor and in 2010 with In a Strange Room. When asked why he became a writer, he told the Guardian he had lymphoma as a child, during which time he 'learned to associate books and stories with a certain kind of attention and comfort'. It is Galgut's ninth novel and first in seven years his debut was published when he was just 17. I'm fascinated as a writer by the edge of the map by things that are not said'. ![]() If the only thing you had was a small window that opened on to these four funerals and you didn't get the full trajectory of the family story, as a reader you'd have to fill in those gaps yourself. ![]() ![]() 'It occurred to me that it would be a novel and interesting way of approaching a family saga. Galgut told BBC Radio 4's Front Row during his Booker Book Club interview last week that the idea for the novel's structure came to him over a semi-drunken afternoon during which a friend described a series of funerals. The Promise, set in South Africa during the country's transition out of apartheid, explores the interconnected relationships between the members of a diminishing white family through the sequential lens of four funerals. The Promise by Damon Galgut has been named the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction. ![]()
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