# @thebookerprizes on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2021-09-15T08:30:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Booker Prizes (@thebookerprizes) — https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes

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Congratulations to Damon Galgut, who is shortlisted for the #2021BookerPrize with ‘The Promise’

Judge @ChigozieObiomaAuthor says: 

‘'The Promise' is an expansive family novel that explores the interconnected relationships between members of one family through the sequential lens of multiple funerals. Death assumes here both a closing but also an opening into lives lived. 

It is an unusual narrative style that balances Faulknerian exuberance with Nabokovian precision, pushes boundaries, and is a testament to the flourishing of the novel in the 21st century. 

In 'The Promise', Damon Galgut makes a strong, unambiguous, commentary on the history of South Africa and of humanity itself that can best be summed up in the question: does true justice exist in this world? The novel’s way of tackling this question is what makes it an accomplishment and truly deserving of its place on the shortlist.’

#BookerPrize #ThePromise @ChattoBooks @VINTAGEBooks @penguinrandomhouse

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| The Booker Prizes | @thebookerprizes | https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes | Awards Organization |

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