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Apr 15, 2021 · Galgut’s new work, “The Promise,” studies the Swart family, descendants of Voortrekker settlers, clinging to their farm amid tumultuous social and political change — “just an ordinary ...
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Apr 6, 2021 · The Promise. Damon Galgut. 3.87. 43,035 ratings4,495 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.
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Mar 17, 2022 · The Promise 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.
Apr 21, 2017 · Reviews. The Promise. Glenn Kenny April 21, 2017. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The Belfast-born writer and director Terry George is most at home in settings where there are troubles, and sorry about the unintentional play on words.
Apr 12, 2021 · Damon Galgut’s novel “The Promise” explores the betrayals of South Africa through a perfectly pitched domestic drama, James Wood writes.
Nov 3, 2021 · A review of “The Promise” in The New York Times Book Review called Galgut “a gleeful satirist, mordantly skewering his characters’ fecklessness and hypocrisy.”
