出版社: Chatto & Windus
出版年: 2021-6-17
页数: 304
定价: GBP 16.99
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781784744069
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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, ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'Astonishing' Colm Tóibín
'A literary masterpiece' Sarah Hall
'Gorgeous and pleasurable' Tessa Hadley
'The most important book of the last ten years' Edmund White
'Simply: you must read it' Claire Messud
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达蒙·加尔格特 作者
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DAMON 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 ...
DAMON 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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彩虹之国里一个流沙式家庭的崩溃与毁灭

读到的第一本就震惊了我的非洲文学
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🟦关于非洲文学 读完《承诺》后,我在课堂上和我的学生推荐了这本书。 我跟他们说,在我们还受困在仰望英美主流文学时,非洲文学已经异军突起了。对于我们而言,充分认识非洲这片土地可能的创作力,反过来也可以纠正我们育目的自以为是。 这片土地的苦难的历史就是他们创作的... (展开)
承诺就是承诺,谁说它一文不值?!
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如果要选择一本书作为对旧的一年的告别,我会选择这本《承诺》。这本摘得2021年布克奖的《承诺》是由年少成名的作家达蒙·加尔格特围绕着南非一个普通家庭所写的小说。 小说横跨了1986-2018大约三十余年的时间长度,记录了四场葬礼,两个种族,一份承诺。 是命运的冥冥安排还是... (展开)
【Notae】人的承认:一个侧面

所谓的“非洲文学”,或许是一个伪命题
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莫桑比克著名作家米亚·科托在一次采访中透露过这样一个观点:人们在面对非洲时,一个最大的误解就是把它视为一个整体。 我们回顾2021年的世界文坛,会发现米亚·科托此言非虚,那一年被誉为“非洲文学年”,非洲作家或非裔作家拿下了包括诺贝尔文学奖、布克奖、以及国际布克奖... (展开)> 更多书评 33篇
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1 有用 lieerli 2021-11-12 12:56:03
家族葬礼衔接的一个家庭故事 每个成员都有各自的悲剧 来自生活的失败和折磨 人是怎么消失和磨损在日复一日中的。 南非大陆的割裂史和动荡在大背景中隐隐展现。只是不觉得有好到布克奖的程度。
0 有用 Duke 2022-04-04 14:52:45
故事本身很简单没什么亮点(房子/家庭/宗教),但文笔实在是优美,机智&有节奏;前两章比较克制,第三章逐渐放开,第四章波涛汹涌,以及一个致敬'The Dead'的结尾。Galgut写出的意识流细腻又亲切,每个人都在自己的情绪里出不来。
1 有用 栩 2021-12-31 21:57:24
家庭琐事串联出4场葬礼与5个人的一生,可以说在情节的布置上,《诺言》确实有着新颖的点,再融合了南非的时代变迁与社会背景,着实是一部在技法和叙事上相对成熟的作品,拿BOOK奖倒是不意外,但是对于普通读者来说,其叙事的方式显得琐碎且累赘,没有真正意识流的灵巧劲儿,却带有反复累赘的弊病,可读性由此少了许多。
0 有用 别的树 2022-03-23 22:55:03
Kirkus: Three decades of South African sociopolitical history are woven into a saga of loss and missed opportunity...Galgut’s multifarious writing style is bold and unusual, providing an initial barri... Kirkus: Three decades of South African sociopolitical history are woven into a saga of loss and missed opportunity...Galgut’s multifarious writing style is bold and unusual, providing an initial barrier to entry yet achieving an intuitive logic over time ...Galgut extends his extraordinary corpus with a rich story of family, history, and grief. (展开)
0 有用 fugu 2022-01-13 14:09:33
加尔格特寓言性质的家庭代际故事,在译文校完了热腾腾的炉内译稿。