The Booker Prize for 2021 has gone to South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut for the Promise, a novel about his home country as it transitions out of apartheid. This year’s panel of judges agreed that Galgut’s novel is “a book that is a real master of form and pushes the form in new ways, that has an incredible originality and fluidity of voice, and a book that’s really dense with historical and metaphorical significance.” -Maya Jasanoff, chair of the Booker Prize 2021 judges. (Source)
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Booker Prize 2021 Shortlist
- Anuk Arudpragasam – A Passage North
- Damon Galgut – The Promise
- Patricia Lockwood – No One Is Talking About This
- Nadifa Mohamed – The Fortune Men
- Richard Powers – Bewilderment
- Maggie Shipstead – Great Circle
The Promise is still on order at the library, but you can place a hold on Galgut’s 2003 novel, the Good Doctor, by clicking here. For questions about checking out these or any other books, please leave a comment below or call the reference desk at 732-873-8700 ext. 111.
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