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The promise by damon galgut review6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Thematically and stylistically this novel echoes his earlier work, but this ambitious, original effort rises to another level, casting a critical eye at his nation’s troubled history with the insight, confidence and sly humour of a seasoned writer.Ĭentral to The Promise are the Swarts-mother Rachel, father Manie, daughters Astrid and Amor and son Anton-their small farm outside of Pretoria, and a shifting assortment of relatives, partners and community members who come and go along the way. With The Promise, Galgut has returned to his native soil with a work that traces the cumulative misfortunes of an Afrikaner family across three decades of national transition and turmoil. It is a tale of unrequited love, rich with historical detail and Edwardian literary flavour. It has been a long seven years since the release of Arctic Summer, his fictionalized imagining of the creative block that filled the space between EM Forester’s conception of an “Indian novel” and the publication of A Passage to India eleven years later. South African author Damon Galgut is back. ![]() It’s just the living part we still have to work out. Apartheid has fallen now, see, we die right next to each other now, in intimate proximity. ![]()
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