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The Promise

Damon Galgut

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15

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#350 of 8,085 books · #181 in Fiction

Won the Booker Prize (2021). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

The Promise won the Booker Prize 2021 and was a 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 their treatment of the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. Salome was to be given her own house, her own land...yet somehow, that vow is carefully ignored. As each decade passes, and the family assemble again, one question hovers over them. Can you ever escape the repercussions of a broken promise?

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Publisher
Chatto & Windus
ISBN-13
9781609456580
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Family and inheritanceRacial injustice in South AfricaBroken promises and moral reckoning

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