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- 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.
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Apr 6, 2021 · The Promise is centred around exactly that - a promise which Amor, the youngest of the three Swart children (Astrid and Anton are the others) overhears her father Manie make before her mother Rachel dies.
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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. [1] It was published by Europa Editions in the US [ 2 ] and by Chatto & Windus in the UK.
Damon Galgut has been awarded the Booker Prize for his powerful novel, The Promise, which 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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Feb 2, 2022 · by Lisa Fugard. Published 2006. About This book. In this beautiful first novel set in South Africa, Lisa Fugard paints a haunting portrait of a family careering toward disaster, moving with extraordinary agility between intimate and revelatory domestic scenes and the fiercely challenging land.
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Nov 3, 2021 · The Promise (Chatto & Windus, PRH), set in South Africa during the country’s transition out of apartheid, explores the interconnected relationships betweenthe members of a diminishing white family through the sequential lens of four funerals.
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021. One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story. 'A moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth Day. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 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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