Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize with ‘tour de force’ novel The Promise
Why? On the one hand it is a gripping saga, following the decline and drop of a white South African spouse and children about 4 decades. It is packed with incident – sexual intercourse, drugs, shootings – and there is drama, discord and death. But there is also plenty of unexpected comedy to lighten the mood. It produced me snicker.
