Amor wants this promise honoured but achieving it turns out to be much harder than she expected. In the opening pages, the youngest family member, Amor, overhears her dying Jewish mother extract the aforementioned promise from her Afrikaner father to give the house to Salome. The family comprises Ma, Pa, and their three children, Astrid, Anton and Amor. The novel is set between 19, and centres on the family, and their farm outside Pretoria. What makes the novel a Booker-Prize winner is the quality of the writing and how Galgut uses his story to create a potted history of South African life and politics in the post-Apartheid decades.
The narrative tracks just how hard it is for the family to honour this promise. It concerns a White South African family’s promise to give a house on their property to their Black maid, whom their grandfather had acquired “along with the land”. Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize winning novel, The promise, is one of those novels that grabbed me intellectually and emotionally from its opening pages.
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