Congratulations to Damon Galgut, whose book ‘The Promise’ has been longlisted for the #2021BookerPrize The judges said: ‘The Promise is a testament to the flourishing of the novel in the 21st century. Here, nothing is as it seems. The standard narrative logic of an omniscient narrator is here expanded and reinvented to create an eye so intrusive its gaze is totally untrammeled. It is in through these eyes that the fate of a white South African family burdened with old lives, old wounds, crimes against humanity, dark history, and misreckonings, become, cumulatively, the fate of South Africa itself.’ #FinestFiction @ChattoBooks @VintageBooks