The Promise

Masterful new fiction from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. A taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the ever-diminishing family together each of the four parts opens with a death and a new decade.The characterisations are razor sharp the dialogue dramatic the action gripping. As we traverse the decades Damon interweaves the story of a disappointed nation from apartheid to Jacob Zuma.Published 2021.