Damon Galgut on The Promise with Anderson Tepper

Join us for a Zoom talk with Damon Galgut, who discusses his new novel, The Promise, with Anderson Tepper.

Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Damon Galgut is one of the most perceptive and inventive chroniclers of post-apartheid South Africa. His latest novel, The Promise—an electric tour-de-force that has earned comparisons to Coetzee, Faulkner, Woolf, and Joyce—spans three decades in the unraveling of the white Swart family, from the mid-1980s onwards. It is also a powerful and moving portrait of the turbulent life of the country itself, witnessed from a variety of angles. 

“The Promise evokes, when you reach the final page, a profound interior shift that is all but physical,” writes critic Claire Messud. “This, as an experience of art, happens only rarely, and is to be prized.”

“Galgut will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa’s transition,” adds author Rian Malan, “in every way the equal of J. M. Coetzee.”

Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria, South Africa. His novels The Good Doctor (Grove, 2003) and In A Strange Room (Europa, 2010) were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

Anderson Tepper is co-chair of the International Committee of the Brooklyn Book Festival and has written for The New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, World Literature Today, and Words without Borders, among other publications.

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