Catalog
Löftet
by Damon Galgut
📚Literary fiction~290 pages
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Over four decades in South Africa, the fractured Swart family repeatedly gathers at the same white farmhouse for funerals, each reunion exposing another layer of grievance, guilt and evasion. At the heart of their story is a promise made to Salome, the Black woman who has worked for the family for years, and the refusal to honour it. The narration moves fluidly among family members and observers, creating an unsparing portrait of private cruelty alongside a changing country. Sharp, mournful and darkly funny, this is an elegant novel of inheritance and moral failure.
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