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The many voices of The Promise tell a story in four snapshots, each one centered on a family funeral, each one happening in a different decade. In the background, a different president is in power, and a different spirit hangs over the country, while in the foreground the family fights over what they call their farm, on a worthless piece of land outside Pretoria.
Over large jumps in time, people get older, faces and laws and lives all change, while a brother and sister circle around a promise made long ago, and never kept ...
| Summary | Discover the Booker Prize longlisted literary masterpiece of a family in crisis. 'Astonishing' Colm Toibin The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family... |
| Author | Damon Galgut |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus |
| Release date | 20210617 |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 1-78474-406-9 |
| ISBN 13 | 978-1-78474-406-9 |
