Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize | 2021 | Winner |
About This Book
At a farm near Pretoria, a white South African family—the Swarts—makes a deathbed promise to give a small house on the property to Salome, their Black servant who has lived there for years. Over four decades, framed by four family deaths, the novel tracks the breaking and keeping of this promise against the backdrop of a changing post-apartheid South Africa.
About the Author
Damon GalgutSouth African
Damon Galgut was born on 12 November 1963 in Pretoria, South Africa, from a Jewish family. Diagnosed with lymphoma at age six, he attended Pretoria Boys High School, where he was head boy, before studying drama at the University of Cape Town. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, at seventeen in 1982. Read more →
