The Promise is a 2021 novel by South African novelist Damon Galgut, published in May 2021, by Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa. It was published by Europa Editions in the US and by Chatto & Windus in the UK.The novel was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize, making Galgut the third South African to win the Prize. Source: Wikipedia (en)