The Promise

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2021
Edition: First Edition

Description: 293 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Mas 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 narrators 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 novels title.

ISBN: 9781784744076