[CaptainKidd]

Six titles made the shortlist for this year's Booker Prize for Fiction, one of the most prestigious prizes for English-language literature.
"A Passage North" by Anuk Arudpragasam
"The Promise" by Damon Galgut
"No One is Talking About This" by Patricia Lockwood
"The Fortune Men" by Nadifa Mohamed
"Bewilderment" by Richard Powers
"Great Circle" by Maggie Shipstead
"No One is Talking About This", a satire on social media by American author Patricia Lockwood, is the only debut on the list.
Damon Galgut - who is shortlisted with "The Promise", a family saga that unspools against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa; and Richard Powers, who made the list with his eco-novel "Bewilderment", have both been shortlisted before.
Others making the cut: American author Maggie Shipstead's "Great Circle" is a 600-page epic that intertwines the lives of two women, a fearless pilot and a Hollywood starlet, over a century apart. "A Passage North" by Sri Lankan writer Anuk Arudpragasan adresses the trauma playing out through multiple lives in the aftermath of his country's long civil war. Only one British novelist made the cut, Nadifa Mohamed for "The Fortune Men"; a real-life tale of racial injustice in 1950s Cardiff.
Some may be disappointed that big-name long-listers Kazuo Ishiguro ("Klara and The Sun"} and Rachel Cusk {"Second Place") have failed to make the cut. However, outside of the inclusion of only one British novelist, there should not be a great deal of criticism of the list from the literary world.
The winner will be announced on 3 November 2021

[CaptainKidd]

Damon Galgut (South Africa, b.1963) wins the 2021 Booker Prize for "The Promise".

The announcement was made by Maya Jasanoff, chair of the 2021 judges, in a ceremony on 3 November 2021 that was broadcast live to a global audience by the BBC.

"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 Promise" is Galgut’s ninth novel and first in seven years; his debut ("A Sinless Season") was published when he was just seventeen. Galgut was previously shortlisted for the Booker in 2003 ("The Good Doctor") and 2010 ("In a Strange Room").

Personally, I was pulling for Maggie Shipstead's "Great Circle", which I listened to as an audiobook on a long flight when I was having difficulty reading while wearing a face mask.

[Fatima99]

Personally, I was pulling for Maggie Shipstead's "Great Circle"

Me too, really enjoyed this book