# @thebookerprizes on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2021-11-08T09:34:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Booker Prizes (@thebookerprizes) — https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes

## Caption

This edition of Damon Galgut’s winning book ‘The Promise’ was created by @katehollandbook, a member of the Designer Bookbinders society.

Kate says: “Underpinning this book, behind the themes of apartheid and racism, are the constantly returning motifs of the veld landscape, the grasses, the lightning, the koppie hill, the tree and I chose to bring this centre and front. A huge thunderstorm rolls over an expansive Pierneef landscape of the high veld grasslands. A lightning bolt hits a Pierneef tree, a pivotal event in the book, but also a symbol of the majority power of the white minority raining down on the black population, a people with insignificant power but deep roots.

Inside the doublures feature a photograph by @gideonmendel (reproduced with his kind permission) from his series ‘The Struggle’: ‘after the funeral of a three-year-old child shot in the head by a policeman’s rubber bullet, angry mourners clash with the police near the family’s home. In this confrontation a woman flings a stone at a policeman who is levelling his shotgun, while a child carrying a plate from the funeral feast runs away.’

The author must have seen this photograph before writing the episode in which the son, a white soldier, shoots a black woman who has picked up a rock to throw at him. It was taken in the township of Atteridgeville in 1985 during the anti-apartheid struggles, exactly the same time and place as the book. And surely is marked in the line delivered so beautifully by @davidjonsson__ in @ubxchi’s film for @Rural_Media: “I woke up””

#BookerPrize #DamonGalgut #ThePromise #DesignerBookbinders

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