The promise  -  Damon Galgut

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021

KORTE INHOUD

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 flui...
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2022 Uitgever: Ballantine Books 304 paginas Taal: Engels Grootte:  198x128 ISBN-10: 1529113873 ISBN-13: 9781529113877