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   Apr 6, 2021 · The Promise, winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, 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.

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   Mar 17, 2022 · The Promise by Damon Galgut. reviewed by Ella Fox-Martens. Somewhere in apartheid Pretoria, 1985, Rachel Swart, a recently re-converted Jewish woman, dies of cancer. On her deathbed, she feverishly forces her Christian, Afrikaans husband to promise to give the maid, Salome, the house where she already lives.

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   Oct 31, 2021 · The Promise is a wide-ranging novel that deals with big themes, not least of which is religion, racism, integrity, honour and loyalty. By focusing on the microcosm of a single family, Galgut highlights what has happened to South African society from the 1980s to now.

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   Apr 15, 2021 · Galgut’s new work, “The Promise,” studies the Swart family, descendants of Voortrekker settlers, clinging to their farm amid tumultuous social and political change — “just an ordinary bunch of...

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   About the book. Brutal emotional truths hit home in Damon Galgut’s The Promise, a deft, powerful story of a diminished family and a troubled land. The narrator’s eye shifts and blinks, deliciously lethal in its observation of the crash and burn of a white South African family.

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7. www.bookbrowse.com › book_number › 4386Book Review: The Promise by Damon Galgut - BookBrowse

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   Feb 2, 2022 · Galgut's plot serves as an allegory for post-apartheid South Africa, with the unfulfilled promise from the Swart family, who are white, to Salome, who is Black, mirroring what the author sees as a failed promise of reparations made to the nation's Black citizens.

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   Is 'The Promise' a family book?

   • ‘The Promise' is an expansive family novel that explores the interconnected relationships between members of one family. It does so through the sequential lens of multiple funerals. Death assumes here both a closing but also an opening into lives lived.

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   What is the theme of the promise?

   • The Promise is a wide-ranging novel that deals with big themes, not least of which is religion, racism, integrity, honour and loyalty. By focusing on the microcosm of a single family, Galgut highlights what has happened to South African society from the 1980s to now.

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   What happens in the promise by Damon Galgut?

   • Damon Galgut's Booker Prize-winning novel, The Promise, opens with a death; Rachel Swart is leaving behind her husband Manie and their three children. As she lays dying, she insists Manie give her long-time maid, Salome, the Lombard place, a ramshackle house on their property in which the servant has lived most of her life.

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   What is the tone of 'the promise'?

   • “The Promise” adopts a protean tone, now menacing, now darkly mirthful. By its close, only one Swart will remain alive, and Galgut keeps a bead on mortality and the body; the chores of funeral directors are laid out in highly unsentimental detail, as are the bad smells of the living and the dead.

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   How many sections are in the promise?

   • Each of The Promise’s four sections centers around the death of a different Swart. They’re also set in defining eras of South African politics, from the State of Emergency to Mandela’s presidency, Mbeki’s inauguration and Jacob Zuma’s eventual resignation.

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   Is the promise realism or surrealism?

   • Disdaining unflinching realism as a sufficient vehicle for conveying the weight of history, The Promise instead offers a narrative that is only matched in surrealism by the facts themselves. In South Africa, Galgut implies, art can only ever hope to imitate life.

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   The Promise. Damon Galgut. Chatto & Windus, 2021 - Fiction - 293 pages. **WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021** 'A tour de force... A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and...