This, as an experience of art, happens only rarely, and is to be prized.’Īnd so it was with high expectations that Kate’s book club set about their annual reading of the Booker prizewinner, but did The Promise meet them? Listen in as we’re joined by regular book-clubber Stuart Marshall and don’t miss our follow-on book recommendations at the end, from Trevor Noah’s Born A Crime to Claire Keegan’s impactful novella Small Things Like These. A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh’, while novelist Claire Messud wrote ‘The Promise evokes, when you reach the final page, a profound interior shift that is all but physical. The Booker judges called The Promise ‘A tour de force …. Can you ever escape the repercussions of a broken promise? As each decade passes, and the family assemble again, one question hovers over them. Salome was to be given her own house, her own land…yet somehow, that vow is carefully ignored. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for – not least their treatment of the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. On a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma’s funeral. Join us for our latest book club episode on The Promise by Damon Galgut.ĭazzling, original, heartfelt and exhilarating, or bleak, depressing, incoherent and unrealistic? What did Kate’s book club make of The Promise, Damon Galgut’s Booker-prize-winning novel, which tells the story of one white South-African family, and the promise made to their black servant, Salome.
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