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   • 51% 51% Rotten Tomatoes

   Critics consensus The Promise wastes an outstanding cast and powerful real-life story on a love triangle that frustratingly fails to engage. More reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

1. www.nytimes.com › review › damon-galgut-promiseA Family, and a Nation Under Apartheid, Tears at the Seams

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   Apr 15, 2021 · When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Rand Richards Cooper. April 15, 2021. THE PROMISE. By Damon Galgut. For three decades the...

2. www.goodreads.com › book › showThe Promise by Damon Galgut | Goodreads

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   Apr 6, 2021 · Damon Galgut. 3.87. 43,142 ratings4,507 reviews. The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, 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 ...

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5. www.harvardreview.org › book-review › the-promiseThe Promise - Harvard Review

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   Mar 17, 2022 · by Damon Galgut. reviewed by Ella Fox-Martens. Somewhere in apartheid Pretoria, 1985, Rachel Swart, a recently re-converted Jewish woman, dies of cancer. On her deathbed, she feverishly forces her Christian, Afrikaans husband to promise to give the maid, Salome, the house where she already lives.

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   Mar 31, 2022 · Review: South Africa’s answer to William Faulkner. Diane Scharper March 31, 2022. Jacaranda trees line a street in Pretoria, South Africa (iStock) Judges for the 2021 Booker Prize were unanimous...

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8. www.thetimes.co.uk › article › the-promise-by-damonThe Promise by Damon Galgut review - The Times & The Sunday Times

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   The Promise by Damon Galgut review — our verdict on the 2021 Booker winner. What is a novel for? This! A South African family saga bursting with life is one of the best books of the year, says...