ISBN 9781784744076|Paperback|304 pages|2021|Penguin Random House UK
The Promise tells of lost promises and charts the decline of a white family during South Africa's transition out of apartheid.
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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 narrator’s eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams; deliciously lethal in its observation. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel’s title.
In this story of a diminished family, sharp and tender emotional truths hit home. Confident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at its finest.
Author:
Damon Galgut
ISBN:
9781784744076
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
304
Year of Publication:
2021
Publisher:
Penguin Random House UK
Edition:
First
Condition:
New
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
About the Author
The author is a novelist who has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (The Good Doctor and In A Strange Room). His most recent novel, Arctic Summer, was nominated for the Walter Scott and Folio prizes and his fiction has been published in sixteen languages. A film adaptation of The Quarry, starring Michael Shannon, was released in 2020. He lives and works in Cape Town.
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