The Promise

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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story. ‘A moving, brilliantly told family epic’ Elizabeth DayTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn 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 their treatment of the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. Salome was to be given her own house, her own land…yet somehow, that vow is carefully ignored. As each decade passes, and the family assemble again, one question hovers over them. Can you ever escape the repercussions of a broken promise?’A tour de force… A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh’ Booker Judges, 2021’Astonishing’ Colm Toibin’Utterly compelling’ Patrick Gale

Language: English
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ISBN-10: 1784744077
ISBN-13: 9781529113877
Genre: Popular Fiction
Condition: New

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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story. ‘A moving, brilliantly told family epic’ Elizabeth DayTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn 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 their treatment of the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. Salome was to be given her own house, her own land…yet somehow, that vow is carefully ignored. As each decade passes, and the family assemble again, one question hovers over them. Can you ever escape the repercussions of a broken promise?’A tour de force… A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh’ Booker Judges, 2021’Astonishing’ Colm Toibin’Utterly compelling’ Patrick Gale

Language: English
Paperback:
ISBN-10: 1784744077
ISBN-13: 9781529113877
Genre: Popular Fiction
Condition: New

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