Freshly Read Books | The Promise | Book Review | Booker 2021 Shortlist @FreshlyReadBooks | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 44 minutes ago.
This is probably the book I heard the most people excited about once they started reading the shortlist and I totally understand why!

⌚Timestamps⌚
0:00 - Intro
1:14 - Synopsis
4:48 - Religion
7:06 - Amor and the Promise
18:50 - Focus
24:46 - Final Thoughts

📼Videos Mentioned📼
Interview with Damon Galgut: youtube.com/watch?v=LrcIkgkLLew&t=1139s

📅Booker Boy Bookclub 2021 Schedule📅
2nd Aug- Second Place - Rachel Cusk
9th Aug - No One is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood & Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
16th Aug - Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead
23rd Aug - An Island - Karen Jennings (This will be late for me! Still waiting for my copy)
30th Aug - A Town Called Solace - Mary Lawson
6th Sept - A Passage North - Anuk Arudpragasam
13th Sep - Light Perpetual - Francis Spufford
Shortlist Announced 14th September
20th Sept - The Sweetness of Water - Nathan Harris
27th Sept - China Room - Sunjeev Sahota
4th Oct - The Fortune Men - Nadifa Mohamed
11th Oct - The Promise - Damon Galgut
18th Oct - Bewilderment - Richard Powers

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