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- The Promise tells the story of the Swarts, a white family descended from Dutch settlers who came to South Africa in the 17th century. The three Swart children come of age in the 1990s during apartheid, a system that formally segregated South Africans by race.
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Jun 16, 2021 · The Swarts are a white family descended from Afrikaners who live on a farm outside Pretoria.
- Damon Galgut on his Booker winner The Promise: ‘Death sets ...
With a nimble and inventive narrative style, Galgut takes us...
- Damon Galgut on his Booker winner The Promise: ‘Death sets ...
The Promise tells the story of the Swarts, a white family descended from Dutch settlers who came to South Africa in the 17th century. The three Swart children come of age in the 1990s during apartheid, a system that formally segregated South Africans by race.
Nov 5, 2021 · With a nimble and inventive narrative style, Galgut takes us into the inner worlds of the various Swarts, moving deftly between the children, Anton, Astrid and Amor, their parents, relations,...
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Apr 6, 2021 · The Swarts are an ordinary white family living on a smallholding outside Pretoria in 1986. The title refers to a promise Afrikaner Manie made to his Jewish wife Rachel (overheard by their younger daughter, Amor) that the Black family maid, Salome, would inherit the tiny house she currently lives in.
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Nov 12, 2021 · Damon Galgut’s latest novel, The Promise, which last week won the 2021 Booker Prize, is set in a land of almost absurd extremity. Tightly structured in place but not in time, it hews closely to...
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...
Mar 17, 2022 · 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.
