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Una saga familiare moderna dal Sudafrica, scritta dall'autore due volte finalista al Booker Prize, Damon Galgut. Perseguitati da una promessa non mantenuta, dopo la morte della madre i membri della famiglia Swart si perdono di vista. Alla deriva, le vite dei tre figli della donna procedono separatamente lungo le acque inesplorate del Sudafrica: Anton, il ragazzo d'oro amareggiato dal potenziale inespresso che è la sua vita; Astrid, i...

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Ausgezeichnet mit dem Booker Prize: Über den Zerfall einer weißen Farmerfamilie in Südafrika - von der Apartheid bis zur Demokratie. Mit großer erzählerischer Kraft und nah an den Personen schildert Damon Galgut eine Familiengeschichte, die sich über dreißig Jahre des politischen Umbruchs in Südafrika erstreckt - von der Apartheid bis hin zur Demokratie. Während sich das Land von den alten tiefen Spaltungen zu einer neuen, gerechteren Gesel...

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A gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man Booker-shortlisted author

An intense and sizzling novel seething with betrayal and political upheaval from the Booker Prize-winning author.

The Good Doctor will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa's transition... by a novelist of great and growing power.' Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart

In this literary tour de force, twice Booker shortlisted novelist Damon Galgut evokes the life and work of E. M. Forster, his travels to India, and the freedom and inspiration he found there.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010'One of the most beautiful and unsettling books I've ever read. I can't remember a more troubling and intense study of rootlessness and loneliness, Galgut is a writer of great, almost frightening, depth.' Tash Aw

Der »Große Gatsby« Südafrikas - von Booker-Preisträger 2021 Damon Galgut (»Das Versprechen« ). Ein brillanter Roman über eine verhängnisvolle Affäre, über die Wandlung eines Landes und deren moralische Auswirkungen. »Damon Galgut ist mit J. M. Coetzee der herausragende Vertreter der weißen südafrikanischen Literatur.« Verena Lueken, FAZ Als Adam Napier in einen gottverlassenen Ort mitten in Südafrika zieht, hofft er, als Dichter zu sich selbs...

Booker-Preisträger 2021 Damon Galgut (»Das Versprechen«) erzählt eine intensive Geschichte über eine Freundschaft, die von Verrat überschattet wird. Ein großer Roman über die Hoffnungen und Enttäuschungen Südafrikas nach der Apartheid. »Damon Galgut ist die starke, frische Stimme der südafrikanischen Literatur.« The Observer In einem halb verlassenen Krankenhaus tief in den ehemaligen Homelands von Südafrika fristet Frank Eloff ein ereignislo...

Give yourself up. Whatever you've done. They'll find you. In the end.A man with no name staggers down a lonely stretch of road that cuts through the simmering veld of rural South Africa. He is exhausted and hungry yet dives for the long grass whenever cars approach. He is on the run. When a minister on his way to a new congregation offers help - at a price - the fugitive's desperation boils over. Stealing the minister's identity, he is success...

Small Circle of Beings is the first collection of extraordinary stories from one of the greatest writers of our time. With astonishing clarity, Galgut explores both the intimacies and violence of family life against the complex landscape of 1980s South Africa.From a mother who experiences a devastating unmooring after her child falls gravely ill, to a son retracing his late father's brief yet passionate affair, the stories ripple out from one ...

»Das Versprechen« erzählt vom zunehmenden Zerfall einer weißen südafrikanischen Familie, die auf einer Farm außerhalb Pretorias lebt. Die Swarts versammeln sich zur Beerdigung ihrer Mutter Rachel, die mit vierzig an Krebs stirbt. Die jüngere Generation, Anton und Amor, verabscheuen alles, wofür die Familie steht - nicht zuletzt das gescheiterte Versprechen an die schwarze Frau, die ihr ganzes Leben für sie gearbeitet hat. Nach jahrelangem Dien...

Ormai alla deriva, le vite dei tre fratelli si muovono separatamente attraverso le acque inesplorate del Sud Africa, Anton, il ragazzo d'oro che risente amaramente per le promesse non mantenute della sua vita, Astrid, la cui bellezza è il suo potere, e il più giovane, Amor, la cui vita è plasmata da un nebuloso senso di colpa. Riunita da quattro funerali nell'arco di tre decenni, questa famiglia in declino riflette l'atmosfera del suo paese: u...

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE***A masterpiece of a family in crisis from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut'Astonishing' Colm Tóibín'A literary masterpiece' Sarah HallThe Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for -- not least the failed promise ...

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE***Masterful new fiction from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon GalgutA taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the ever-diminishing family together, each of the four parts opens with a death and a new decade. The characterisations are razor sharp, the dialogue dramatic, the action gripping. As we traverse the decades...

A masterpiece of a family in crisis from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut'Astonishing' Colm Toibin'A literary masterpiece' Sarah HallThe Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria.

A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa, Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises, Astrid, whose beauty is her power, an...

Estate artica" è la storia romanzata di uno dei maggiori scrittori britannici, E.M. Forster, l'autore di capolavori quali "Passaggio in India", "Maurice", "Camera con vista". Forster, omosessuale in un'Inghilterra puritana, tentò per tutta la vita di sfuggire all'opprimente ambiente della provincia inglese e fu un grandissimo viaggiatore. I suoi viaggi non furono solo la scoperta di posti esotici, dove immergersi in stili di vita opposti a que...