The promise / Damon Galgut.
Publication details: London : Chatto & Windus, 2021.Description: 293 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781784744076
- Afrikaners -- Fiction
- Farmers -- South Africa -- Fiction
- Whites -- South Africa -- Fiction
- Promises -- Fiction
- Race relations -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- South Africa
- South Africa -- Fiction
- 823/.92 23
- PR9369.3.G28 P76 2021
- Winner 2021 Booker Prize.
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | GAL | Available | 063675 |
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A taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the ever-diminishing family together, each of the four parts opens with a death and a new decade. The characterisations are razor sharp, the dialogue dramatic, the action gripping. As we traverse the decades, Damon interweaves the story of a disappointed nation from apartheid to Jacob Zuma.
Winner 2021 Booker Prize.