The Promise (Signed Bookplate)

Damon Galgut

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ISBN 10: 1784744069 ISBN 13: 9781784744069

Published by Chatto & Windus, 2021

Language: English

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Eighth print. Book in as new condition. Unclipped DJ in fine condition with a tiny bit of creasing to the tail of the spine. Signed by Galgut on a dedicated bookplate attached to the title page. The Promise 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 the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land. yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled. ***** Free shipping available to UK buyers. For customers located outside the UK, if the actual cost of shipping your order is lower than the price paid, then a refund of the difference will be issued.

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Title

The Promise (Signed Bookplate)

Publisher

Chatto & Windus

Publication Date

2021

Language

English

ISBN 10

1784744069

ISBN 13

9781784744069

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

As New

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A masterpiece of a family in crisis from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut

'Astonishing' Colm T�ib�n

'A literary masterpiece' Sarah Hall

The Promise 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 the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled.

The narrator's eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams; deliciously lethal in its observation. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title.

In this story of a diminished family, sharp and tender emotional truths hit home. Confident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at its finest.

'Gorgeous and pleasurable' Tessa Hadley

'The most important book of the last ten years' Edmund White

'Simply: you must read it' Claire Messud

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