Galgut's 'The Promise' is a novel about one white family’s reckoning with South Africa’s racist history.
Galgut said he was accepting the
South African writer Galgut said he was accepting the prize 'on behalf of all the stories told and untold, the writers heard and unheard, from the remarkable continent that I’m part of.' Photo: AP He is the third South African novelist to win the Booker Prize, after Nadine Gordimer in 1974 and J.M. Coetzee, who won twice, in 1983 and 1999.Bewilderment,
"This is a book that’s very much about inheritance and legacy,” she said of the winner."It’s about change over a period of decades. And I think it’s a book that invites reflection over the decades and invites and repays rereading.”
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