The promise - Damon Galgut
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 and a BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick
KORTE INHOUD
Damon Galgut has been awarded the Booker Prize for his powerful novel, The Promise , which 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. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to a so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title.
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. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to a so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title.
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2021 Uitgever: Ballantine Books 304 paginas Taal: Engels Grootte: 223x144 ISBN-10: 1784744069 ISBN-13: 9781784744069Koop dit boek tweedehands
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