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The Promise

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內容簡介 【2021布克獎得獎作品！】「這個故事最初的靈感，是來自一位身為家族最後一員的朋友...」《紐約時報》編輯精選：一部家庭危機的傑作。 「一本承載了吳爾芙和喬伊斯文學精神的作品，以嚴謹的細節，在形式自由與優雅之間平衡；它的幽默與精準刻劃人性的真相：我們是如此不足與片段的。一言以蔽之：你必須讀它。」—Claire Messud，《哈潑雜誌》「今年最好的書籍之一：一本生命蓬勃的南非家庭傳奇。」《英國泰晤士報》「《承諾》（The Promise）重複訴說著命運與消逝神話的民間故事...以驚人深度，隨著時間的緩慢推移，徐徐出場的溫柔人物。」—Colm Tóibín，《布魯克林》作者，柯姆·托賓，愛爾蘭文學家，​​英國科斯塔最佳小說獎。 一個在南非的白人家庭「斯沃特」，住在「花園城」郊區的一個農場。「斯沃特」正在為他們工作了一輩子的黑人媽媽，莎樂美舉行葬禮。年輕一代的「斯沃特」卻厭惡這個家庭所代表的一切...莎樂美曾被「承諾」能擁有自己的房子、土地...但不知何故，隨著時間的流逝，這個承諾遲遲無法兌現。敘述者的人物流暢地移動，在轉瞬之間虛實交替；其中的觀察精闢且一針見血。這個衰敗的家庭故事，尖銳而溫柔的情感直擊人心的真相。自信、靈巧且安靜卻有力，《承諾》是最經典的文學。隨著南非從老舊的深層分裂，轉向新社會的公平正義，一個家庭背後徘徊不止的承諾。"Discover the Booker Prize longlisted literary masterpiece of a family in crisis. 'Astonishing' Colm Tóibín The 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 to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled. The narrator's eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams; deliciously lethal in its observation. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title. In this story of a diminished family, sharp and tender emotional truths hit home. Confident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at its finest.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Damon GalgutDamon Galgut is a novelist who has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (The Good Doctor and In A Strange Room). His most recent novel, Arctic Summer, was nominated for the Walter Scott and Folio prizes and his fiction has been published in sixteen languages. A film adaptation of The Quarry, starring Michael Shannon, was released in 2020. Damon Galgut lives and works in Cape Town.

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